Video Explains Why Cap-and-Trade is a Scam
Need an explanation of cap and trade that even a climate change denier could understand? Check out this short video hosted by Annie Leonard whose film Story of Stuff took a hard look at our culture of excessive consumerism. She continues the theme with a series of new videos that will look at different aspects of sustainability. The first one, "The Story of Cap & Trade," was released this month. Here’s what the project’s Web site says about the first installment:
"The Story of Cap & Trade" is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.
Watch the film and learn why cap and trade is just another way for Wall Street to cash in on climate change without actually doing much to combat it. After you’ve watched, go here to take action.
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Ok, so the free market economy is evil, right? It's so evil that we must use hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to prop it up, because it's too big to fail - but still evil. And then we're going to give that same free market economy that caused our current economic situation, and is evil, but too big to fail, control over our environmental future. All based on science that is quickly being shown to have been doctored to make the case for the evil free market controlling it?
So what happens when the climate continues to change - as it will because it's been doing it for about 4 billion years now - and these same evil free market traders again crash the economy? Are we going to again bail them out with money we don't have? And do you really think China, who has proposed that they dollar has seen its finest day come and go, is going to bail us out again?
And don't forget that this is all being enabled by the government that has been elected to represent OUR interests. Of course they are doing it out a selfless sense of duty and will gain nothing from it, right? What a joke.
Damn, my head is spinning.
"It's so evil that we must use hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to prop it up, because it's too big to fail - but still evil."
I agree that the bailouts weren't necessary, look up Peter D. Schiff's take on it.
"And then we're going to give that same free market economy that caused our current economic situation, and is evil, but too big to fail, control over our environmental future."
I guess we need a little economics lesson here:
http://mises.org/story/3165
"All based on science that is quickly being shown to have been doctored to make the case for the evil free market controlling it?"
Uh, the current fraud over global warming (or climate change if that's what they want to call it) is proported to give the government control over the economy:
http://www.fff.org/comment/ed0797d.asp
The part about the free market being evil was actually tongue in cheek. Personally I think the bailouts were a horrible idea, and I agree with Peter Schiff. We are seeing his predictions come true as the dollar has devalued by over 14% this year.
However, even if the fraud of man made global warming moves forward, making it a system similar to the stock market is a horrible idea in my opinion.
I was responding to you on the basis of the tongue & cheek perspective.
With regards to Schiff, I think it's funny to see his prediction on gold come true. It's now worth far more than a grand per ounce:
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
The last paragraph in your reply there pretty much sums it up: if we don't trust the stock market , then how does it help to fight global warming under a similar format?
I couldn't agree more.