You're surprised that the UN notes that rich people can afford to adapt and poor people can't?
Exactly, I have no intention of changing my lifestyle or habits. I’m going to enjoy the rest of my life to the fullest whether it’s climate friendly or not.
The biggest arguement for a carbon tax is that since many wont give anything up, the more money UN nations make.
Talk about your wingnut conspiracy theories.
You didn't quote the rest of the whackadoodle nonsense, which jumped from that global non-sequitur about United Nations Organization to Fat's personal turf where (strictly anecdotally) "nobody is going to give up their car". Apparently ignoring the rise of car-sharing and ride-sharing and the declines in vehicle sales and driver's licensing which show many already have. And then on to AC and home heating, where higher 'sin'-taxes on fossil fuels have already spurred consumers to demand much higher output efficiencies from machines burning less fuel.
Which would have no impact on climate change. We're way beyond simple solutions. The problem is so big and so intractable, not even a brain surgeon can get his mind around it.
The Nobel for economics was handed out to someone who showed that a carbon tax is the best way to fight climate change.
Put that on your tombstone so your grandchildren can understand why they are living in hell on earth.
Good luck with that. You and the Nobel Laureate will need it in spades.
We are unwilling or incapable of doing what's required: stop having kids to reduce population, live in mud huts without electricity, grow our own food, stop eating meat, no more cars. These types of extreme life changes are only the beginnings of what could be considered anything resembling a solution. The developed and developing worlds exist based on activities that contribute to climate change. You can live in modernity or you can stop climate change, but you can't do both. All the lip service sounds great though, because it gives us the illusion that we're "doing something".
They also gave one to Obama just for being black.
He'll on Earth??? The latter part of the 20th century and the 21st century have been, hands down, the best time to be alive in the history of the human race. Not even the Pax Romana comes close. God forbid a major war, this is bound to continue, climate going warmer or colder. We're not animals, we have an ability to rapidly adapt.
