Among the many reasons conservatives favor small government is the vast efficiency the private sector has in deploying resources. You never see a firm paying $37 for screws, or for a $7,622 coffee maker, or for $640 toilet seats like our government actually did in the 1990s.
The private sector can also fire their worst employees. Just to give one example, thanks to tenure, union rules, and other privileges the government has granted them, firing a bad teacher is no easy task. New York City alone spends $22 million a year to keep problem teachers in “rubber rooms,” which are temporary holding facilities for teachers accused of various kinds of misconduct who are awaiting an official hearing. That process can take years.
Recently, Donald Trump has been under fire for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. But what were the terms of the deal for its projected reward? Anyone who looked at the figures noticed that they weren’t pretty. The Agreement required payments of $100 billion per year from the developed world until the year 2100 to reduce global temperatures by 0.2 degrees Celsius.
Whoopie.
But that might not be the biggest example of environmental waste a government could muster. In Denmark, a new environmental project has been embarked on that will inevitably require government funding to meet its lofty and expensive goals:
The company that created this carbon capturing plant in Switzerland, Climeworks, says it will take 250,000 of these facilities, at $4.5 million a piece, to reduce global CO2 by just 1%. That would cost $1.125 TRILLION dollars.
Yet, the same CO2 reduction could be achieved by planting less than $2 billion worth of trees.This is why people don’t trust our policymakers on global warming. Instead of taking the easiest or cheapest or least disruptive route to addressing it, we’re pushed toward the costliest solutions. Corporatists and politicians are, plain and simply, looking at climate change as a cash cow and a way to further fleece taxpayers.
H/T Unbiased America
Nuts, right?
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Capturing CO2 from power-plant emissions is hideously expensive, with a capital cost of $11/watt. Then, if it’s injected into the ground, about 2/3 leaks out again. Removing it from the atmosphere is also difficult and expensive because of the very low concentration. It’s much easier to remove it from seawater, where it’s 140 times more concentrated than in the atmosphere using the PARC BPMED process. Then use the Fischer-Tropsch process to make liquid hydrocarbon fuels, which we will need forever unless we give up on airplanes and return to sailing ships. This needs energy. Where to get it? The safest and least-expensive way is with the right kind of nuclear reactor, which also can destroy nuclear waste (and nothing else can). Read “Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste” in December 2005 Scientific American or online, or “Plentiful Energy” by Charles E. Till and Yoon Il Chang, or http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Five_Myths.
Everywhere I have ever lived, I plant trees. In one of my current homes, I am looking out my window at two 60 foot oaks I planted 35 years ago. In the back of this home are 120 linear feet of 40 foot tall bamboo. I far more than made up for my wife and I’s ‘carbon footprint’.
Global warming was always a scam and still is.
EXACTLY! Is that so hard to figure out? Obumma, had a lot geniuses specifically engaged to drain our treasury…and our tax dollars…towards his commie scams.
Of course it’s a scam. All of the proposed “solutions” involve massive wealth transfers from the bank accounts of the common man into the pockets of politicians and their associates. The lemmings that follow slavishly the urgings of their puppet masters to wave signs and spread false fears are useful idiots who will be consumed in the resulting suppression of Democratic institutions. We’ve already had the greatest looting in the history of mankind over the last 8 years at the hands of the uber-thief Obama – 9 trillion dollars – and have nothing to show for that, either. Oh, wait – except for the first downgrading of the credit rating of the United States in its history. Not even in the depths of the great depression, nor the civil war, nor WWII did that happen. But give Barry a checkbook and boom! There it went! The next round of pigs is now lining up at the trough for their slops. We can only pray that there are enough of us who can think to hold off the fools rushing over the ledge at the behest of the RICO conspirator heads of the great warming scam.
AND, if you plant an acorn you also get nuts!!! You CANNOT FIX STUPID, you can only point and laugh!!! Some of these idiots are well-meaning but they simply have NO CLUE!! Climate change is nothing but a complete HOAX intent to REDISTRIBUTE our wealth to 3rd World countries while lining the pockets of Gore and other Global Elitists, New World Order….
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Lets go and plant some trees. I am going to Home Depot now and get a few for my yard