Comments | dissembly: Why carbon trading is a waste of time.

dissembly

Why carbon trading is a waste of time.

Dec 18, 2009 11:18

Journalists seem to be locked into treating Penny Wong and Kevid Rudd's emissions trading ideas as if they are serious or economically sound concepts, to the extent of ridiculing the criticisms of the Western preoccupation with carbon trading coming from poorer nations. Fact is, carbon trading is not a remotely serious idea, and Westerners are ( Read more... )

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anonymous February 21 2010, 11:56:28 UTC

Totally agree with point #4, but the example about solar technology is not the best. Solar thermal power plants are viabe right NOW, without needing any breakthrough technological developments in storage or transmission.

The problem of course is that the market is only efficient at choosing whats profitable, not what is necessary to stave off catastrophic climate change. If selling weapons and speculating on the stock market is whats most profitable...

Market in-efficiency anonymous February 21 2010, 11:57:46 UTC

Totally agree with point #4, but the example about solar technology is not the best. Solar thermal power plants are viabe right NOW, without needing any breakthrough technological developments in storage or transmission.

The problem of course is that the market is only efficient at choosing whats profitable, not what is necessary to stave off catastrophic climate change.

The case of the Solar Systems power plant in Mildura is a good case in point.

If selling weapons and speculating on the stock market is whats most profitable...

halo_of_thorns August 5 2010, 02:12:17 UTC

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dissembly September 27 2010, 12:12:53 UTC

Duuuuude! Thank-you so much for posting this. I'm sorry i've been away from LJ for so long. Many, many things have been happening in my life that have left me with almost no time. Not bad things, good things like research work and stuff like that - but time consuming things.

Hopefully things will clear up very soon. I really appreciate you posting this. Keep me on your flist!

Let's talk about good music anonymous September 30 2010, 11:24:13 UTC

I love music like "Queen". What about you?

Re: Let's talk about good music dissembly October 2 2010, 07:32:27 UTC

My favourite band is in my icon. Queen is good, though.