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Old 10-05-2016, 04:10 PM   #645
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Originally Posted by Fuzz View Post
Take a country like Brazil. If they protect their rain forests, their is an economic impact for that. Should they not receive some benefit for sacrificing that benefit for the benefit of the rest of the planet? Such as the ability to trade that off for resource development? In which case the carbon market should absolutely take that into account. It's a global balance sheet, and it is not jsut emmisions that have an effect on CO2 concentrations. We should be acknowledging, not ignoring that. But I'm sure that goes wildly against the "green" agendas that care so little about reality.
Yeah, because we'll all be happily paying for a massive permafrost melt in Canada in a few decades like Photon said (at 30x the cost for methane). I don't think your criticism of "green" agendas masks your own very well.
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