Author Topic: Right/Left Identity Politics  (Read 1790 times)

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Offline JMT

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Re: Right/Left Identity Politics
« Reply #30 on: August 30, 2017, 06:28:14 pm »
Settled? You think global warming is settled? What are we going to do about it? Don't say carbon taxes. Even if they worked (at MASSIVE cost) the effect would be virtually insignificant.

Carbon taxes actually do work.  To have the needed effect (because AGW is settled), they would have to be something like $289 a ton.  That's why you need a combination of factors - conservation, energy efficiency improvements, coal phase out, oil phase out, carbon taxes, reforestation, carbon sequestration, etc.

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Human rights? I'm all for human rights. The ones like freedom of speech, religion, assembly, etc (you know, the ones so much of the Left hates). Some of the new ones aren't human rights.

Sure they are - you just haven't kept up with progress.

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Not freedom of speech, though, or at least, not for people the Left doesn't like.

Speech should be free - but everything has limits.