There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it.
The two cherub-like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterHalf the POINT of a carbon credit scheme is that it creates a new economic environment, with new and different opportunities for making money.
There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it.
The two cherub-like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
The aim is to change behaviour because the new behaviour will be financially attractive. So there is nothing particularly surprising about people making money from this situation.
Originally posted by orfeoDont you think that they took the "holier than thou" moral high ground thing a bit too far? Never was the obsene amounts well placed people and business were going to make publicised well. They just continually flog us like naughty schoolchildren saying its all your fault.
Half the POINT of a carbon credit scheme is that it creates a new economic environment, with new and different opportunities for making money.
The aim is to change behaviour because the new behaviour will be financially attractive. So there is nothing particularly surprising about people making money from this situation.
I do think that it is a good thing being more environmantaly aware is able to generate a profit, but they could have told us the truth straight away and i would have thought "good for you, you clever guys".
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterI didn't know you like to work for free DSR? Maybe you work for an Oil company? I hear they don't really make much money at all.
There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it.
The two cherub-like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
Originally posted by orfeoYes they've turned a fashionable religion into a cash-cow so that the gullible masses can assuage their guilt by buying indulgences. Meanwhile Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank. There's nothing honest about it so I think the guy's a tosser. But still I take my hat off to the guy for his audacity. Wish I'd thought of it.
Half the POINT of a carbon credit scheme is that it creates a new economic environment, with new and different opportunities for making money.
The aim is to change behaviour because the new behaviour will be financially attractive. So there is nothing particularly surprising about people making money from this situation.
www.cei.org/pdf/5539.pdf
Originally posted by SpastiGovThat’s the whole point. The only language corporations listen to is MONEY. So make the reduction of emissions lucrative and hey presto, we manage global warming and we appease money hungry CEO's. It really is a clever idea. They did what they had to do in order for the biggest culprits of climate change to change their ways, and in this case, it was by showing them how to profit from it.
Yes they've turned a fashionable religion into a cash-cow
Well that's it. We now have absolute proof that global warming is not actually happening and we can just go right on ahead living on this planet without a care in the world because a couple of fat cats are not perfect.
Thank you for setting me straight. It's good to know that all the people who don't believe in man made global warming are actually perfect human beings. I hereby renounce all of my previous opinions and will walk in the glorious path of the right so that I too may be 100% perfect in every way possible.
PS: Gimme a break will ya. Anyone who thinks Al Gore, George Bush, Pat Robertson or Al Franken is perfect is a tool. They are all public figures, they are all human and just like the rest of us they are not always what they seem. That does not mean what they stand for is wrong (even if you don't agree with what they stand for) because if all anyone can do is attack the messenger but not the message also knows they have no leg to stand on and are just crying sissies.
There is simply no logical connection between 'people can make money from the global warming debate' and 'global warming is not true'.
In fact, there's no logical connection with 'global warming IS true' either.
People can make money because we are putting a value on carbon emissions, which was not the case until recently. Whether or not you think it's RIGHT to put a value on carbon emissions is an entirely separate issue. Anything which has a value can be made into a source of money, pure and simple.
I would certainly be interested in hearing from anyone who wants to justify the continued non-value of not just carbon emissions, but any form of waste product. It seems to me to be one of the key economic issues surrounding any environmental debate. Companies create waste because it economically favourable to do so. As soon as you create some kind of cost with waste creation, you encourage companies to consider other strategies that might be cheaper.
Originally posted by EsotericNow, why couldn't I put it that neatly?
That’s the whole point. The only language corporations listen to is MONEY. So make the reduction of emissions lucrative and hey presto, we manage global warming and we appease money hungry CEO's. It really is a clever idea. They did what they had to do in order for the biggest culprits of climate change to change their ways, and in this case, it was by showing them how to profit from it.