American Thinker: The Sustainable Development Hoax
[Fred Singer] Among the worst policies being pushed with the help of SD is a scheme called Contraction and Convergence (C & C). The idea is that every human is entitled to emit the same amount of CO2. This of course translates into every being on earth using the same amount of energy -- and, by inference, having the same income. In other words, C & C is basically a policy for a giant global income redistribution.Carbon tax unlikely to benefit low-income Canadians
If anyone really believes the money generated from carbon taxes will end up in the pockets of low-and middle-income citizens, then they are dreaming. Do the advocates of the carbon tax think that big business will take any less money home at the end of the day?Climate change pioneer will speak at Wake Forest on Tuesday | JournalNow.com
Give the government more money to play with and they will find a way to spend it.
Bill McKibben, who is among the most well-known and outspoken crusaders against global warming, considers himself a conservative.
"There is nothing conservative about fundamentally altering the atmosphere," McKibben said. "If some crazy hippie in 1968 said, 'I'm going to change the composition of the atmosphere, you would've said, 'That's a radical idea.' But for some reason, we've decided in our political climate that we'll call this conservative. I'd call it radical. I'd say the work I do is fundamentally conservative. We like the world that God gave us."
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“Among the worst policies being pushed with the help of SD is a scheme called Contraction and Convergence (C&C). The idea is that every human is entitled to emit the same amount of CO2. This of course translates into every being on earth using the same amount of energy -- and, by inference, having the same income. In other words, C&C is basically a policy for a giant global income redistribution.”
It is a pity that someone as expert as Fred Singer should be making statements like this. The entire basis on which his view rests is that there is no problem with climate change or the aggravation of it by human emissions from fossil fuel burning.
C&C is not about ‘global income re-distribution’ it is about ‘global emissions pre-distribution’ subject to the limit that achieves compliance with the objective of the UN Climate Change Convention.
Mr Singer is entitled to his view. However, it is by no means one that is universally shared. For the considerable body of people, no less expert than himself for whom there is a problem with climate change and the emissions from humans burning fossil fuels that aggravate it, C&C is portrayed as a sensible way on which the world as a whole can come to terms to address and resolve this problem: - http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/endorsements_high_res_.pdf
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