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Because no one is making a profit from fixing it.

whatshisface 8y ago
It's possible to make a lot of money trading carbon credits, just like you can trading anything else (Al Gore does this). There are also a lot of subsidies for green technology (which corporations can make money from) and in some countries a lot of climate taxes (which governments make money from.) There's just more money to be made in the entire rest of the economy (which is carbon-producing) than there is in building solar panels and shutting down factories.
- candiodari 8y ago
  Ahh ... to be 15 again, and believe that someone like Al Gore actually trades, which would imply a mostly-fair exchange of things of actual value. That such a man actually cares for anything other than his own aggrandizement and money. I miss that. Don't ever take a consulting gig at the EU headquarters. It may pay ... decent. I wouldn't say particularly well paid, but decent. It will also kill any remote ounce of hope you may harbor for politicians improving matters. Here you find an indication of who the man really is[1]. Some tidbits: (high school) He was the captain of the football team, threw discus for the track and field team, and participated in basketball, art, and government. Was 25th in his class but got immediately accepted into harvard ... Gore was an avid reader who fell in love with scientific and mathematical theories,[19] but he did not do well in science classes and avoided taking math.[18] During his first two years, his grades placed him in the lower one-fifth of his class. During his sophomore year, he reportedly spent much of his time watching television, shooting pool, and occasionally smoking marijuana Gore earned an A on his thesis, "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947–1969", and graduated with an A.B. cum laude in June 1969 Truly a man of science he is ... and his life mostly a great example of exactly how fair government is in the US (and sadly, I would agree that the life story of president Macron illustrates that the US is in fact pretty fair, or at least that it can be a lot worse than the above) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Early_life_and_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Early_life_and_educati...
- kraigie 8y ago
  Carbon trading credits are not enough to fix global warming your right, if the value of carbon fixing or putting carbon in the ground was higher than the value of extracting 50 years ago. Well we would probably have solved this by now, but coal and oil get subsides rather than tax, we don't make the external costs apply to the profit makers. At the risk of sounding libertarian if auto manufactures had to pay for the cost of asthma and respitory diseases that autos cause electric cars would be widespread by now.
cimmanom 8y ago
Of course, there are plenty of people on the internet ready to complain that scientists who warn about global warming do so only because they are making a profit from it. Perhaps the problem is that the fix would cut into someone else's profits.

It's possible to make a lot of money trading carbon credits, just like you can trading anything else (Al Gore does this). There are also a lot of subsidies for green technology (which corporations can make money from) and in some countries a lot of climate taxes (which governments make money from.) There's just more money to be made in the entire rest of the economy (which is carbon-producing) than there is in building solar panels and shutting down factories.

candiodari 8y ago
Ahh ... to be 15 again, and believe that someone like Al Gore actually trades, which would imply a mostly-fair exchange of things of actual value. That such a man actually cares for anything other than his own aggrandizement and money. I miss that. Don't ever take a consulting gig at the EU headquarters. It may pay ... decent. I wouldn't say particularly well paid, but decent. It will also kill any remote ounce of hope you may harbor for politicians improving matters. Here you find an indication of who the man really is[1]. Some tidbits: (high school) He was the captain of the football team, threw discus for the track and field team, and participated in basketball, art, and government. Was 25th in his class but got immediately accepted into harvard ... Gore was an avid reader who fell in love with scientific and mathematical theories,[19] but he did not do well in science classes and avoided taking math.[18] During his first two years, his grades placed him in the lower one-fifth of his class. During his sophomore year, he reportedly spent much of his time watching television, shooting pool, and occasionally smoking marijuana Gore earned an A on his thesis, "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947–1969", and graduated with an A.B. cum laude in June 1969 Truly a man of science he is ... and his life mostly a great example of exactly how fair government is in the US (and sadly, I would agree that the life story of president Macron illustrates that the US is in fact pretty fair, or at least that it can be a lot worse than the above) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Early_life_and_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Early_life_and_educati...
kraigie 8y ago
Carbon trading credits are not enough to fix global warming your right, if the value of carbon fixing or putting carbon in the ground was higher than the value of extracting 50 years ago. Well we would probably have solved this by now, but coal and oil get subsides rather than tax, we don't make the external costs apply to the profit makers. At the risk of sounding libertarian if auto manufactures had to pay for the cost of asthma and respitory diseases that autos cause electric cars would be widespread by now.

cimmanom 8y ago

Of course, there are plenty of people on the internet ready to complain that scientists who warn about global warming do so only because they are making a profit from it. Perhaps the problem is that the fix would cut into someone else's profits.