Robert Howard wrote: > Now, if we can just get those Chinese to pay carbon taxes, we might be able > to compete. :-) > If, say, U.S. energy needs can be solved while greatly reducing CO2 output, then that technology can be shared with countries like China. Alternatively if some way can be invented to swallow up billions tons at a time of CO2 from the atmosphere, that could also be shared, or ways to improve existing energy sources w.r.t. to their CO2 output. At least in this country, the development of such technology will never get large scale scientific/engineering attention that's needed until it is identified as a crisis and the profits for solving the problem are seen to be bigger than the profits from business as usual. Heavy carbon taxes would be the promise of the end of profits from business as usual.
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