>And I am sorry to say that, but I don't think that a global framework enforcing the same environmental restrictions on every country in the world, regardless o

>And I am sorry to say that, but I don't think that a global framework enforcing the same environmental restrictions on every country in the world, regardless of its economic state, is realistic. Sorry. We don't need a perfect global framework. We just need to shift incentives to some extent. The market is already coming up with some non-carbon alternatives. Adding a carbon tax will shift incentives further and increase tech development. To mitigate the effects, business need an energy source. Either it's: * a replacement to carbon, or * still carbon If it's still carbon, you can't reverse the causes, and mitigation gets harder and harder as you worsen the problem. You're effectively arguing that: 1. There's no use trying now, it's basically impossible, but 2. Despite not trying now, we will solve the impossible problem at some future point. You're perhaps arguing that the problems of global warming will help us. This seems rather like Bastiat's parable of the broken window. Negative changes will only hurt us, and individual solutions can't fix a global atmosphere.