HogWild-USMC
07-15-2009, 10:07 PM
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/07/carbon.emissions.allocation/index.html?iref=intlOnlyonCNN
Researchers in the U.S. have proposed a new way of allocating responsibility for carbon emissions they say could solve the impasse between developed and developing countries.
In case you don't know, you live in a "developed country".
The method sets national targets for reducing carbon emissions based on the number of high-income earners in each country, following the theory that people who earn more generate more CO2.
"It's fairer than some other ideas out there in the sense that we attribute responsibility for emission reductions based only on the number of high-emitting people in the country -- if the country has large number of people who are high-emitters then it has more work to do," said Shoibal Chakravarty, a research scholar at Princeton Environmental Institute.
When researchers at Princeton started working on the project two years ago, one of their first aims was to find a reliable way to estimate the average emissions of high-income earners.
"There's actually a very strong relationship in every country between emissions and income," Chakravarty told CNN.
Let me explain this part, it's not complicated.
Other people want your money and will do anything other than working for it to get it. I'm not rich, not even close. I live comfortably, but I do earn enough money to actually pay taxes. I have nice stuff, because I saved for it or borrowed the money and (gasp) actually paid it back so I could keep the nice stuff. I'm a target.
You can't get blood from a rock, and you can't get tax dollars from those on welfare or unemployed.
Cooling the earth costs money. However, as this article aptly explains, no one is trying to stop you from emitting CO2 emissions, they just want you to pay for it. And what does that money paid do to cool the earth?
Nothing. It just makes our government, Al Gore, and those like him rich. Rich off your sweat.
If I have to give my money away, I would rather it go to feed the hungry, fight AIDS and other diseases, or create jobs for fellow Americans.
Not to make Al Gore rich.
Researchers in the U.S. have proposed a new way of allocating responsibility for carbon emissions they say could solve the impasse between developed and developing countries.
In case you don't know, you live in a "developed country".
The method sets national targets for reducing carbon emissions based on the number of high-income earners in each country, following the theory that people who earn more generate more CO2.
"It's fairer than some other ideas out there in the sense that we attribute responsibility for emission reductions based only on the number of high-emitting people in the country -- if the country has large number of people who are high-emitters then it has more work to do," said Shoibal Chakravarty, a research scholar at Princeton Environmental Institute.
When researchers at Princeton started working on the project two years ago, one of their first aims was to find a reliable way to estimate the average emissions of high-income earners.
"There's actually a very strong relationship in every country between emissions and income," Chakravarty told CNN.
Let me explain this part, it's not complicated.
Other people want your money and will do anything other than working for it to get it. I'm not rich, not even close. I live comfortably, but I do earn enough money to actually pay taxes. I have nice stuff, because I saved for it or borrowed the money and (gasp) actually paid it back so I could keep the nice stuff. I'm a target.
You can't get blood from a rock, and you can't get tax dollars from those on welfare or unemployed.
Cooling the earth costs money. However, as this article aptly explains, no one is trying to stop you from emitting CO2 emissions, they just want you to pay for it. And what does that money paid do to cool the earth?
Nothing. It just makes our government, Al Gore, and those like him rich. Rich off your sweat.
If I have to give my money away, I would rather it go to feed the hungry, fight AIDS and other diseases, or create jobs for fellow Americans.
Not to make Al Gore rich.