Comment by wallace_f
8 years ago
This is all a great illustration of support for Elon Musk's idea that a carbon tax is the best way to fight climate change.
Unfortunately, a global carbon tax would put the billion dollar Climate Change Bureaucracy Industry nearly out of business. And people act like we haven't seen this kind of perverse incentive structure--bureaucratic inertia--before with the War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Terrror, etc.: they all end up focusing on self-preservation rather than their apparent objectives.
Yeah I won't really be worried about global warming until they start talking about something like "The Climate War". We lose all our wars, so that would be a declaration of inevitable doom.