[kootenay]

Originally Posted by erps

There was a show on the T.V. the other day about a group of scientists who said they could solve global warming for a fraction of the cost of all this legislation by pumping some sort of acid solution into the upper atmosphere.

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Heard that line before. We have a local lake 110 miles by 6 miles long and had wonderful Kokanee salmon and Lake trout fishing. Some bunch of brainiacs claimed they could maintain the fish at a much lower cost than the Fisheries department if only they could release fresh water shrimp into the lake. The conservative government looking to save a buck let them do it. 20 years later the Kokanee are about toast because is turns out the young Kokanee compete with the shrimp for the same food source and the lake trout deprived of the young kokanee as prey are in decline.

I will always be wary of scientists trying to introduce a foreign element into the environment to fix something. It generally backfires.

Shifting the tax burden from incomes to Use systems/polluters etc isnt really the worst concept. You buy something you pay tax, you dirty it up you pay more. No cap and trade just a straight transfer of tax burden from income tax.