Jungle:
Brilliant, as always.
A segue from a previous post that Jungle pontificated from, and my comment
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/mo...cap-trade.html (Cap and Trade; 3-16-09):
How do you get the destitute in the third-world to stop burning tires, leaves, twigs, and dried dung for fuel?
Oh, right...give them carbon-credits. Get 20 credits and you get a bag of rice from UNICEF.
Big Business and Big Government are in the business of herding masses of people towards their next money-making scheme or pacification plan. Cap and Trade might work in the Western-world, where we are 'enlightened,' and guilt is a major societal controlling-force (feel guilty if don't buy a hybrid car, are against any 'social reform,' or eat meat).
But the majority of the people on this planet have never heard of Al Gore, Obama, Cap and Trade, and probably don't know what Carbon---or for that matter, an atom---is. Tell them their cooking fire is going to cost extra? Won't work...who's going to enforce it?
Anyone else notice how the great 'swine flu' pandemic has fallen out of the news after only 4 days? Guess there wasn't any money to be made from it.
But there's plenty of money to be made from the fear of carbon.