Author Topic: An alternative approach to global warming  (Read 711 times)

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Offline TimG

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Re: An alternative approach to global warming
« on: May 24, 2018, 09:09:02 pm »
Not really. If drinking too much coke is rotting your teeth, don’t you think cutting down on coke should be part of the solution as well as going to the dentist?
If you want to make analogies try a more appropriate one is: if drinking 2 liters coke/day is rotting your teeth cutting would your consumption by 1.9 liters/day make any difference? Now with the coke analogy you can argue cutting out that 100ml can't hurt even if it makes no difference but with CO2 cutting consumption modestly comes with a large cost and if you spend resources on CO2 mitigation those resources are not available for other things like adaption. This means a proper economic analysis requires cost benefit calculation for each measure. If one measure costs $1000 tonne/co2 then it is waste and should not be done. If another measure costs $30 tonne of CO2 then it is definitely worth doing. Unfortunately those analyses are not being done and because there are way too many economic illiterates who are dazzled by fancy projects that cost a lot while doing nothing. This means a lot of resources are being wasted and will not be available to fund the inevitable adaption.