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Originally Posted by Flame of Liberty
Wall of text that does even address my points
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My point was that economic growth trumpeting all other considerations is hopelessly short-sighted and dangerous. Your ill-tempered and unadvised rant did nothing to address that point.
Okay so the world is in a period of stagnant growth. Sure, but that has nothing to do with cap and trade or anything to do with constraining carbon. Why not in a time of slackened demand implement some of the regulations requried to price carbon so that total economic shock wont be as expensive or apparent?
I was "non-chalant" about a slowed growth rate by one or two percentage points because even if the rate is slowed in 20 years our economy will have still grown by a factor much greater. Some CGE modelling indicates that if we reduce emissions by 20% by 2020 then growth relative to the business as usual economic growth is 8% lower in Alberta. However, Alberta's economy has still grown by over 50% over that same period. Still seems pretty good, especially if you're into risk mitigation and can see that climate change has potentially significant effects on medium and long-term output.
Also, all your stuff about Goldman Sachs and Al Gore is just so tiresome. Guess what, there are business opportunities from constricting carbon. People who get into that game first are going to make hay once an inevitable carbon reducing framework is adopted. That is not evidence of some global conspiracy to bilk, you the good standing tax payer of money. That is a result of incentives we use to most efficiently reduce carbon emissions.