Originally posted by jimmac
sorry, I will try again, there is a massive movement with massive funding based upon climate change being caused ( or at least overly assisted ) by humans.All the momentum of this funding relies upon that self belief. If the belief was to stop, so would the funding. They panic when they are challenged.
That scenario, where one "creates" the need for fundin ...[text shortened]... fruit of the falsehood, is ( loosely described ) referred to as a gravy train. i.e, a free ride.
It's fine to question the integrity of cap and trade and indeed the extent to which vested interests seek to gain through climate change politics. My opinion is that there is going to be a huge element of fraud in any cap and trade system and I would prefer different remedies. I see investment in alternative energy and prevention of new extraction of fossil fuels as entirely beneficial. We should have the collective intelligence to devise solutions.
You may like to add to your list the extent to which our pension funds, insurances and collective savings are being sunk into fossil fuel investments that we know, through well supported and credible climate change research, are destined to realise only a fraction of their supposed valuations. If we succeed in keeping the known and still expanding reserves in the ground, thus contributing to our survival as a species, then those reserves will have no economic value at all and the untold wealth enjoyed by people like the Koch family will be reduced to dust. If the vested interests succeed in continuing to open up and exploit more and more fossil fuel reserves, then the damage they do to our lives will be incalculable and deeply negative.
Let us say you are not convinced about climate change. Consider even so the scale of risk that confronts us and then tell us what, in your mind, would be a responsible and indeed intelligent response. Burn the stuff or keep it underground?