Stephen and all,
Dr. MacKay's premise is wrong. Nations do not have to agree "on a common goal in everyone's self-interest."
Rather a fraction of one big self-interested nation can drive every other nation. The U.S. has a very vocal and well-funded subgroup of people and politicians who see small government and free markets as a more important issues than climate change. The same group is also annoyed with China, Russia, the Iran treaty.
It's the truth: American advancements in fracking and plenty of other technologies have given America cheap "fossil" energy. American businesses would benefit from a price on carbon in a manner which favors small government and free markets. Part of the carbon fee would come from imports proportional to the carbon footprint of the country of origin. American could export pre-paid fossil fuels. Russian and Middle-East oils would become worth less. Iran would have less money to export terror.
Anybody here from the tribe of small-government in a position to push this message?
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Subject: [geo] Carbon reduction incentive.
From: Stephen Salter <s.sal...@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, October 13, 2015 8:56 am
To: geoengineering <geoengineering@googlegroups.com>
Hi All
Check out
http://www.nature.com/news/price-carbon-i-will-if-you-will-1.18538
Stephen
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