Dust my Broom - You Are Killing The Planet "This" Much

God, words almost fail. The fundamentalist religion of global warming has reached a new low. According to an article in "businessgreen.com", Japanese firms are signing up to a labelling scheme to provide carbon emission information on retail products. Just as there is currently information on Canadian packaging that tells you how much of a fatass you'll become if you eat an entire box of Crispers [are they crackers, or chips, who knows?], now you'll rest assured how much of the Arctic you're warming with label information on your "carbon footprint"...

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Douthwaite's idea is that everybody should get their fair share of the rent that derives from the scarcity of fossil fuels. There would be a new world energy agency with the task of cutting carbon emissions and it would do so by issuing permits for the amount of CO2 it believed consistent with this objective. These permits would be scarcer than the supplies of fossil fuels, which would raise their price. Consumers would realise their share of the economic rent from the sale of such permits to the oil producers. People in the poorest parts of the world, with low energy consumption, would gain most.