"What Kyoto means for personal incomes: a reduction of two thirds!"
Ian Murray:
"Oh please. A quadrupling of investment in ecosystem friendly technologies would be a boon to global living standards."
OK, I'll carry on flying, and you can take the raft when you go abroad.
Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes:
"the switch to a hydrogen economy (a matter of making the right investments and exploiting very modest improvements in now-available windmill, photovoltaic, and fuel-cell technologies) plus transition to widespread organic farming la Cuba would in and of itself result in big increases in real living standards everywhere."
I'm all for fuel-cells, but they're not here yet. As to photovoltaics and windmills, get real.
And organic farming! Fine if you want to see half the population expelled from the cities to work the land, and cultivated land soar to ninety-per cent of land available, while foodstuffs eat up half of household income. All available evidence - and there is a great deal over here - says organics are much lower yield and lower productivity.
I don't know whether the organic farming you attribute to Cuba includes its substantial - world-leading - programme of genetic modification. I for one am supporting their campaign to have the European ban on GM lifted as a protectionist measure. -- James Heartfield The 'Death of the Subject' Explained is available at GBP11.00, plus GBP1.00 p&p from Publications, audacity.org, 8 College Close, Hackney, London, E9 6ER. Make cheques payable to 'Audacity Ltd'