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Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It
Coryoth writes, "In a report commissioned by the UK government, respected economist Sir Nicholas Stern concludes that mitigating global warming could cost around 1% of global GDP if spent immediately, but ignoring the problem could cost between 5% and 20% of global GDP. The 700-page study represents the first major report on climate change from an economist rather than a scientist. The report calls for the introduction of green taxes and carbon trading schemes as soon as possible, and calls on the international community to sign a new pact on greenhouse emissions by next year rather than in 2010/11. At the very least the UK government is taking the report seriously; both major parties are proposing new green taxes. Stern points out, however, that any action will only be effective if truly global."
he's not competent to judge the strength of the material he was relying on
That prerequisite doesn't seem to stop anyone here...
- Tony
"I'll fucking knock Steven Hawking out of that stupid chair. Then i'll say 'now who's smart? now who's fucking smart?'"
is that the one?
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
What the hell's wrong with you, the government needs those taxes to be proactive about things.
.... well anyhow ..... never mind ..... ok lets try ..... ..... scrap that one.... .... oops, hold on here I'm working on it ..... ..... shit, scratch that .... .....@#@#$#$%%%^
if not for taxes to pay for public education, our kids would be the dubmest in the free world, wiat..... never mind
if not for taxes, our social security and medicare programs would be bankrupt. wait
if not for taxes to fight the war on drugs, we would have drug problems in every inner city, uh
if not for taxes, the government would need to go into debt,
if not for taxes our medical and college education costs would be out of reach,
if not for taxes to pay for war, we'd be loosing the war on terror,
Well, FU! you're just not trying hard enough to see how valuable all these taxs are for everyone. We NEED the government to be "proactive"
You're assuming an atmosphere of fixed volume. If I learned anything from University it was that if you start with a 100% solution of coke and add rum you can get a 78% rum solution.
does it have whale skin hubcaps?
Cause as an arsehole, I'd only be interested in it if it had whale skin hubcaps
2050? Wait, How can that be right since we totally ran out of oil in 1994?
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Doctors know about the value of preventive medicine...
it's a lot harder to fix someone when they have lung cancer than to stop them from smoking in the first place.
Engineers know the value of tests...
all that "test first" design and building models, it saves having to repair crazy legacy code on live servers... or fix the bridge while cars are driving over it.
Unfortunately what we've got now is the latter situation...
the patient is sick and cars are driving over him.
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