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originally posted by: derfreebie
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: marg6043
But we're talking about the future of the planet here!
How is buying yourself out of polluting going to solve the crisis?
C'mon Beez, it's always been about maximizing one's (the corporation's)
revenue. It wouldn't be buying your way out of being penalized for a
bad habit, nearly as much as bribing one's self out of the taxation.
I think it'll shake out about the same as Oblam-me-Careless... the
"penalty" is better than the plan: in almost any possible incarnation.
At the alternative I'm sidin' with that dark fuzzy Hammond guy dakoopa:
I love me someadat RegurgiTwentyone. In D, and with Bloomfield on a gid.
I AM that old, and that was a session for the ages.
Under a basic cap-and-trade scheme, if a company’s
carbon emissions fall below a set allowance, that company can sell the
difference — in the form of credits — to other companies
that exceed their limits. Another fast-growing voluntary model is carbon
offsets. In this global market, a set of middlemen companies, called offset
firms, estimate a company’s emissions and then act as brokers by
offering opportunities to invest in carbon-reducing projects around the world.
Unlike carbon trading, offsetting isn’t yet government regulated in most
countries; it’s up to buyers to verify a project’s
environmental worth. In theory, for every ton of C02 emitted, a
company can buy certificates attesting that the same amount of greenhouse gas
was removed from the atmosphere through renewable energy projects such as tree
planting.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: marg6043
But that doesn't change the fact that global climate change is underway!
Basically, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic instead of stopping it sinking!
What are they doing to stop the changes already under way?
originally posted by: beezzer
I'm seeing greed.
Corruption.
Games by the elite.
Carbon "shell games" by banks.
Not one damned solution.
originally posted by: beezzer
I'm seeing greed.
Corruption.
Games by the elite.
Carbon "shell games" by banks.
Not one damned solution.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: marg6043
I'm beginning to see that government(s) don't want climate change to end.
They don't care about the environment.
They don't care about the future.
They just want to have more control and authority and taxes.
Is there any hope for the planet?
Remember, I'm operating under the assumption that man-made climate change is real and is happening now.
Lord Rothschild, chairman of RIT, added, “The creation of this partnership with the Rockefeller family is truly historic. We look forward to the development of our joint investment activities across the global capital markets.”
originally posted by: beezzer
For the purpose of this thread, I will caveat that Global-Climate-Change is entirely man-made.