Beth Cooper | May 23, 2012 at 11:24 am |
Yeah, I never was much of a fan of Kyoto, so don’t feel especially obliged to defend it.
If you want an efficient economy, you want a Capitalist Market. If you want a Capitalist Market, you must privatize all your scarce rivalrous excludable resources where administratively feasible.
The carbon cycle is no different from mobile phone bandwidth, in that sense.
This isn’t a climate question per se. It’s a simple question of managing the economy.
Until and unless we’re looking at level playing ground prices, how can any analysis deliver an objective basis for comparing costs of various proposals?
As it happens, I don’t disagree a lot of wind energy projects are scams. Even moreso are biomass projects, however, and tarsands are even more extreme scams by that same premise. Which I imagine means little to you. What Australia’s circumstances are, I’m too unfamiliar with to comment, so I generally don’t. Other than to point out, I’ve heard Australians generally back the Capitalist approach to economics.