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Where the rubber hits the road on the climate change debate is that the solution to climate change always includes carbon credits and cap and trade. These two

Where the rubber hits the road on the climate change debate is that the solution to climate change always includes carbon credits and cap and trade. These two combine to be a global tax administered by new supranational organizations that can alternatively bribe and control development and the standard of living of every country on the planet. The governance of these entities will likely go the way of the IMF and the World Bank. Thus, it's just too convenient of a way to administer an empire. No wonder the countries that would get the short end of all this, such as the BRICS, are skeptical. I realize we here in America have got to keep all these schemes going to keep the great balancing act we perform running the world moving right along. Heck, we need all the help we can get to keep the BRICS at an economic disadvantage. Too bad it's such a waste of smart people producing climate change B.S.

adventured 11y ago
The US doesn't have to work very hard when it comes to the BRICS, they do it to themselves constantly. Putin takes over Russia, and proceeds to do absolutely nothing to develop the economy away from its commodity dependency. Instead, he falls back onto the focus on energy that doomed the USSR. The US dollar goes on a big run, China's growth slows, US oil producers add four million barrels per day, and just like that Russia sinks into the abyss again. Russians are now spending half their income on just food alone, with their economy collapsing by 1/3 in dollar terms in just 18 months. What did the US do to cause that? That's Russia's fault. The same goes for what is happening to Brazil right now. They rode the fake boom good times on the back of a debased US dollar. Now that fake boom is over, the weak dollar has gone away, and with that tide going out, so has Brazil's economy. Whose fault is that? It's only Brazil's fault. Did the US force China to take on tens of trillions in debt to fake economic growth where there was none after the global consumer crashed in 2008? Nope, just like Japan before them, they did it to themselves willingly so they wouldn't have to admit the party was over. The US hasn't had to do anything to these countries to hold them at an economic disadvantage, they're doing it to themselves.

adventured 11y ago

The US doesn't have to work very hard when it comes to the BRICS, they do it to themselves constantly. Putin takes over Russia, and proceeds to do absolutely nothing to develop the economy away from its commodity dependency. Instead, he falls back onto the focus on energy that doomed the USSR. The US dollar goes on a big run, China's growth slows, US oil producers add four million barrels per day, and just like that Russia sinks into the abyss again. Russians are now spending half their income on just food alone, with their economy collapsing by 1/3 in dollar terms in just 18 months. What did the US do to cause that? That's Russia's fault. The same goes for what is happening to Brazil right now. They rode the fake boom good times on the back of a debased US dollar. Now that fake boom is over, the weak dollar has gone away, and with that tide going out, so has Brazil's economy. Whose fault is that? It's only Brazil's fault. Did the US force China to take on tens of trillions in debt to fake economic growth where there was none after the global consumer crashed in 2008? Nope, just like Japan before them, they did it to themselves willingly so they wouldn't have to admit the party was over. The US hasn't had to do anything to these countries to hold them at an economic disadvantage, they're doing it to themselves.