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Old 10-24-2018, 01:52 PM   #3434 (permalink)
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redistribution of wealth

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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
If I gather correctly from the various implied comments, I think it means waging war on wealth; essentially. That's the most direct way to reduce resource consumption. Redistributing wealth would accomplish the same thing in the long run.
History bears out that basically all experiments with redistribution of wealth have only ended in failure,and the problems they were intended to mitigate,only grew worse.
Up until relatively recently,the environment could absorb the insults of profligate waste.Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
The evidence that anthropogenic climate change is not ongoing, would be even more unbelievable than that of the existence of climate change.
If climate scientists are correct,and we need to reduce carbon emissions as fast as we can,then business as usual has got to go.
If we're not to steal from our neighbor,then we can't steal their energy either.
The end of the energy free market may have to come to an end as during war.No other 'business' has more impact on the environment.
Rationing, or inverted rate pricing structures can be the reward or punishment for patriotic or traitorous energy use.
We're talking about the nest we live in.If Americans think they can s---in the nest,well maybe there's a reality check waiting for them.
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