Anybody who believed global warming was man made are having questions now?

[highwaystar101]

Soleron said:

Spankey said:

Soleron said:
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It's the massive industry that's grown out of this that I'm opposed to.

Social and environmental responsibility I'm all for though.

I don't want to live in a dump, but I'll be damned if I'll pay for carbon credits. It should be common sense, not scaremongery and extortion like some kind of environmental protection racket.

Carbon credits are a stupid idea that could never work properly. It's impossible to regulate the actual effectiveness of the offset schemes for a start.

This debate needs to shift from 'is it happening or not' to 'How best can we move towards efficiency and away from fossil fuels?'. Because the former has no resolution (all the evidence in the world couldn't shift some people) and doesn't actually affect the nature of the right course of action.

 

Still, I don't think there's a 'massive industry' yet. Certainly not as massive and corrupt as the oil companies. Does Exxon feel market pressure? Ethical pressure? Why don't energy and oil prices properly fluctuate with demand? There's something wrong with the market; making it inefficient.

Carbon credits are a poor idea at best. Well, I say that; I mean poor for the world, not for those that use them. An honest carbon tax or energy efficiency plan could have an abstract wrote on one A4 sheet of paper and would be simple enough to get action done. but it's not, everyone wants to know "how will this benefit me now?", hence carbon credits and a bad system to boot.

*Bleh*