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Originally Posted by Arragonis
{re. desal. plants}That's a wacking lot of cash for a wealthy but small country. Money which could be used for quite a lot of other very useful things - probably more useful.
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Exactly. Which is why the cause of the need to build them is better avoided.
Ultimately though, we know from previous times in the Earth's past when CO2 was as high as it could be if we don't stop increasing it, it will not be viable to try to adapt; the effects are too great.
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Originally Posted by Arragonis
If the EU deliberately push up the price then it will make more countries reconsider their memberships, especially if Australia goes ahead and gets rid of their which is the new government policy.
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For any economy that removes pricing, it will be revealed as an error and only a short term pause in pricing. It is likely to damage those economies long term. When global emissions reduction is implemented they will have more to do in taking their economy into low emissions.