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Old 01-16-2019, 12:28 PM   #4548 (permalink)
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I'll be the last to know.
The friendly folks with the IPCC figure that we're looking at $54-trillion in climate-related losses,between now,and 2040.
That's an average of $2.454-trillion a year.
They're talking $27,000 /ton carbon tax,by 2100.
That would be $13.5/lb,or $265.95/gallon,for liquid fuels.(in 2100 dollars?)
And it's interesting that the party,most associated with denial,is the one who's sponsoring the legislation the most.
My SWAG,is that fossil fuel is going to end up like Asbestos,with a carbon trust,numbering in the trillions of dollars,in class-action lawsuits,as we now see for Mesothelioma,and some of Astra-Zeneca's Type-2 Diabetes drugs,which give the users genital gangrene (Global Climax Change).
Taxing the US population is a structural feature of the Republic and Constitution,and government is the only thing 'big' enough to deal with problems on the scale of climate change.
73% of the 'denial' party 'privately' agrees that global climate change is real,that it's happening now,and that it's anthropogenicly driven.
We're gonna see how it goes.
Luckily that will probably never happen.
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