Not exact matches
We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets
of families and businesses with
excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources
of low
carbon energy; and recreating the volatility
of the housing market with an
emissions trading scheme where the supply
of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.
He also models the global warming that would occur if concentrations
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were to be doubled (due to increases in
carbon dioxide and methane
emissions from dragons and the
excessive use
of wildfire).
«Regardless
of which theory proves correct, the goal is the same — to reduce
carbon emissions, we need innovation in the private sector; not
excessive government regulation to stifle some industries while rewarding others.
Indeed, the rehabilitation
of our water bodies can not happen with a denial
of science that portrays the toll
of global warming on our oceans due to
excessive carbon dioxide
emissions and human folly in overexploitation, unregulated and destructive fishing, marine pollution and habitat destruction.
The argument is whether us humans have super-imposed our
excessive carbon dioxide
emissions upon the existing natural balance
of the climate system — thereby altering it's natural chemistry leading to possible dangerous global warming at some point in the near and distant future.
The first phase
of the EU ETS — from 2005 to 2007 — drew criticism for not achieving substantial cuts in
emissions,
excessive allowance price volatility and for resulting in windfall profits for some utility firms that received
carbon allowances for free but were able to pass through their full cost to consumers in the form
of higher electricity prices.
If
carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant when present in
excessive concentrations in the atmosphere — which the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding for
carbon says that it is — then by law and by past precedent the Clean Air Act is the appropriate means for controlling all
of America's own greenhouse gas
emissions, regardless
of their source.
«It emerged at the international level, through the combination
of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests
of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests
of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and
excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests
of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection»
of forests in their countries, (4) the interests
of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction
of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment
of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests
of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type
of capital, through the commercialization
of «environmental services» such as
carbon sequestration, among others.»
Two factors which seem to account for this upward revision are the swift economic growth in developing nations, especially in China and India, and the limited ability
of the Earth's oceans to absorb
excessive carbon emissions.
A whole good idea would be to make a payroll - tax holiday the first step in an orderly transition to scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package
of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more
of — things like pollution,
carbon emissions, oil imports, inefficient use
of energy and natural resources, and
excessive consumption.