Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> > From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: boucher, epi and coal
>
> > Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising.
I did not mean this as a criticism of you.
> EPI has raised serious
> > questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from the
> > perspective of the coal miners.
>
>
> We've done a number of reports (all much
> more elaborate than the above-mentioned
> piece) which environmentalists find quite
> congenial to their views.
Nobody thought otherwise.
> If government gives away emissions permits, then clearly
> corporations do not benefit as a group, since one firm's
> sale is another's purchase. If the government sells them,
> corporations are net losers in the aggregate. This does
> not mean of course, that the trading scheme would
> effectively address pollution, but that's not what you
> were talking about either.
>
They make out by being able to continue to pollute at a relatively low cost.
I understand that corporations are already eyeing mothballed Russian factories
for their pollution rights.
> Environmentalism in the large is about raising the costs
> of consumption that is most susceptible to taxation under
> current circumstances. The rich will be able to shelter
> their consumption to some extent, and beyond that consume
> what they want in any event. They're rich, remember? Reduced
> consumption also conduces to employment shrinkage, wage
> stagnation, deflation, and right-wing populism, with all the
> associated interests of Capital in play.
The poor are the objects of the pollution. Residents of the toxic alley in
La. might pay more, but their lives might be spared. Besides, I suspect that
since so little attention has been paid to the alleviation of pollution, in
many cases, the firms will make money in the process of limiting pollution.
> Associating environmental skepticism with the Right?
>
Guilty as charged and proud of it.
> Uncovering specious links between Harvey and the
> victim of tendentious posts known as Rethinking Marxism?
I don't understand.
> It is to laugh.
>
Good. We should be having fun.
> > . . .
>
> Cheers,
>
> MBS
>
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