Originally Posted by
jungle
I have seen this all before, and I love it when you talk about cigarettes.
Governments around the world started to use the health risk as an ideal excuse to generate huge amounts of revenue. In many places they made ten times what cigarette producers made on the product. Partners in crime?
Did it solve the problem? Not at all, but they got rich on the habits of others in the war on some drugs.
A lovely chapter in the melding of science and government.
Just as carbon taxes will not cure the problem, but they will make a lot of people richer and generate huge amounts of government revenue on the backs of honest citizens.
Next up- carbon, fat people, risky people, etc. It is a game played for revenue and wealth. The problems never get solved.
In many cases there is no real problem at all, just a chance to make money.
Still not a single example of an accurate forecast, a single reasonable solution or a single accurate cause and effect relationship in the climate game? I wonder why?
Bingo ! Point goes to Jungle.
BTW those smokers pay for a whole lot of programs that would not otherwise be paid for ,so the next time you see someone smoking say thank you to them .
On a side note ,my new avatar is supposed to be animated is there some reason as to why it is not working in here ?
