by AgentR » Tue 30 Jun 2009, 17:45:39
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', 'W')e can only hope that it is changed by the senate into something that actually reduces our negative impact on the climate, but I'm not holding my breath.
At this point, the only way to reduce our negative impact significantly, is to reduce our economic prosperity and put an end to economic growth. Plain and simple.
Problem is, doing so also makes it impossible to satisfy the demands of other segments of the Democratic party. Basically, I don't think they can do, what they should do, and still be electable in 2016. I suspect a tough looking bill will pass, with enough loopholes and flaws that allows continued expansion of the worldwide industrial economy. I wouldn't be surprised at all if more industrial jobs are moved overseas, and I suspect the bill will be devoid of any language that would both tax overseas polluting processes and survive contact with the various trade treaties which would have legal priority over normal legislative and regulatory text.
ie, suspect something like, "x-odd dollars per ton of emissions on imported products Y and Z"; which then gets touched by the WTO, labeled as "unfair" and turned in to zero dollars per ton of emissions on imported products Y and Z..
Same products being consumed, same emissions released into the atmosphere, with the added bonus of even more emissions released in order to move the products to their original market. Think of it as a sucker punch to localization.
Yes, we are. As we are.
And so shall we remain; Until the end.