![“Life imitating Atlas” continues. Reuters’ “New Climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest” chronicles the latest lunacy of real-world Dr. Stadlers:
To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Since about half the planet’s climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
These obligations, based on the increasing number of rich people in various countries, would kick in as each developing country hit a certain overall level of carbon emissions. This level would be set fairly high, so that economic development would not be hampered in the poorest countries, no matter how many rich people live there.
Is this a limousine-and-yacht tax on the rich? Not necessarily, [Shoibal] Chakravarty [of the Princeton Environment Institute] said, but he did not rule it out: “We are not by any means proposing that. If some country finds a way of doing that, it’s great.”
Fairness. Need. Power. Coercion. Theft. PR. Influence. Destruction. Lies. Annihilation.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/Anhohk1sapsnrnr51j8ytz6zo1_100.jpg)
“Life imitating Atlas” continues. Reuters’ “New Climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest” chronicles the latest lunacy of real-world Dr. Stadlers:
To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Since about half the planet’s climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
These obligations, based on the increasing number of rich people in various countries, would kick in as each developing country hit a certain overall level of carbon emissions. This level would be set fairly high, so that economic development would not be hampered in the poorest countries, no matter how many rich people live there.
Is this a limousine-and-yacht tax on the rich? Not necessarily, [Shoibal] Chakravarty [of the Princeton Environment Institute] said, but he did not rule it out: “We are not by any means proposing that. If some country finds a way of doing that, it’s great.”
Fairness. Need. Power. Coercion. Theft. PR. Influence. Destruction. Lies. Annihilation.
