[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

14 thousand tons per second is nothing.
The glaciers retreated nearly a thousand miles in as little as a few hundred years at the end of the last ice age.
Man didn't cause that by lighting a few camp fires.

Plus all the beliver approved was to fix global warming barely amount to "fossil fuel extenders" and offer no actual solution. Redistribution of wealth is not a solution.

A few hundred years?

How about 5 thousand years?

Around 15,000 years ago a new group of people crossed the Bering strait into North America. They spread quickly over the continent, killing most large animals in the process (just as already was under way in the rest of the world). Also, people started farming crops, clearing out fields by burning down vegetation.This had a global effect on wildlife and vegetation.

The Ice age was already coming to an end, but mankind did play a role.
Not campfires but man caused wildfires have sped up the changeover.
But not as fast as we do now. We cannot wait for 5000 years to start acting.

Redistribution of wealth is not a solution... So there is no problem? Or do you have a better solution?

We must primarily stop the waste, the needless spillage. Insulate homes. Improve on transport economy, improve on logistics, improve on the efficiency of industrial processes.

At this point the cost of energy is part of the equation while developing industrial processes. To reduce emissions the cost of energy needs to rise. For instance, techniques like HIsarna for the iron industry would quickly become commonplace if energy gets more expensive.

Taxation is but one way to get there. But if you have a better way of cutting down the spillage, go tell.