On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:57 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/13/2014 3:05 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > > > Its taking a problem, like global warming, and exaggerating that problem, > so as to impose regulation. Its regulation, as the power to control. You > want to fight global warming, then invent and distribute better energy > systems. This is not being done in a truly, sincere, way, otherwise we'd > have seen tens of billions of dollars, per year, funding alternate energy, > rather than a few billion. Paltry. What has been demanded is regulation. > Doing things this way doesn't indicate rushing to fix a problem, but > rushing to regulate the US. > > > The "regulation" has been carbon tax and carbon emission trading, i.e. > economic incentives to push the market into investing in alternative > energy. It's part of U.S. libertarian dogma that the government cannot do > anything right, all regulation is evil, and the market is always the > solution. >
>From an outsider's perspective, I must assume that this is a dogma in the same sense that "catholic priests should not have sex" is a dogma... > > > My prediction is that in the US,with the handing of the power to > regulate to the UN, you'd see a back-reaction, against the political > elites, that champion regulations, and not funding research sufficiently. > The oil and coal companies that are despised, would then win, handily. > > > What do you mean "then", they're winning handily now. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
