From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@gondwanaland.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 14:16:10 MST
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:51:30AM -0800, Damien Raphael wrote:
> Out of curiosity... if it _were_ proven beyond scientific doubt that
> our emissions were warming up the planet, to dangerous levels, what
> would the libertarian response be? Note that "suing the polluter" isn't
> obviously effective here, since the polluters are just about everyone.
I'd support an increased energy/greenhouse tax in lieu of some of
our other taxes. The only reason I'm not on that bandwagon now is
that I don't really believe other taxes would be decreased or
eliminated as a consequence of higher energy taxes.
> Conversely, one Drextech scenario has been people sucking so much CO2
> out of the atmosphere to build diamondoid structures with that a new Ice
> Age gets triggered. Same question applies.
Against the backdrop of full Drextech I suspect a new ice age would
be a relatively insignificant change.
FWIW: Claim SLvl - 1 m rise in Sea Levee
By 2030, the greenhouse effect and other causes will have raised
the average world sea level by 1 meter from its 1994 level.
http://www.ideafutures.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=SLvl
Last traded at 30.
-- Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 13:37:37 MST