[geeks] Global Warming questions...

[Frank Van Damme]

On Dec 3, 2007 12:34 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > My thought is that if someone wants to claim to be carbon-neutral, you have to
> > start with securing sufficient plants to "scrub" your carbon dioxide output
> > back to oxygen. THen we can talk about buying carbon credits for cars, planes,
> > etc...
>
> This whole business of buying carbon offsets and credits is BS in the
> first place.  It's just like buying indulgences from the Pope in the
> middle ages.  "Sure it's a sin, but it's OK, I just gave the Pope five
> hundred gold sovereigns."

Not exactly. It's based on
1. distributing the right to emit a limited amount of CO2 per capita,
evenly spread over the earth's population
2. arranging for the trade of the emission rights since some countries
will have a harder time then others to recude CO2 output (reliance on
heavy industry,...)

So the goal is to minimize the global economical cost of reducing CO2
emissions. Free trade can be an efficient tool for this.


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