Goldman Sachs, The Koch Brothers, The World Bank Group, and a whole host of other financial groups have invested millions into the climate change meme. All with the desire to reap huge profits for the privilege of shuffling paper from one side of the room to the other. The IPCC estimates it will cost 76 trillion dollars to change the worlds system of energy production to a green one. All of those financial groups will be payed enormous sums of money to do it.
Politicians and governments are using the climate change meme to take ever more control over how people live, work, travel (or not as the case may be) with the eventual desire to have all of the peons of the world living in apartments of around 600 square feet stacked one atop he other to reduce the human footprint on the planet. The wealthy though will of course still be allowed to enjoy the beauty of the wild and better yet they won't have any of those pesky poor people around to annoy them.
Goldman Sachs, The Koch Brothers, The World Bank Group, and a whole host of other financial groups have invested millions into the climate change meme. All with the desire to reap huge profits for the privilege of shuffling paper from one side of the room to the other. The IPCC estimates it will cost 76 trillion dollars to change the worlds system of energy production to a green one. All of those financial groups will be payed enormous sums of money to do it.
An acceptable argument, but then, isn't that capitalism's goal : invest to reap billions ?
Except the part where you state : shuffling paper from one side of the room to the other, true, it does seem like a huge effort to get to the same point, unless it is done at the right pace : some energy plants have to be decomissioned as they get old.
I understand this part and it seems a valid concern.
Politicians and governments are using the climate change meme to take ever more control over how people live, work, travel (or not as the case may be) with the eventual desire to have all of the peons of the world living in apartments of around 600 square feet stacked one atop he other to reduce the human footprint on the planet. The wealthy though will of course still be allowed to enjoy the beauty of the wild and better yet they won't have any of those pesky poor people around to annoy them
Ah , and here we go again : this
"take ever more control over how people live, work , travel"
No , I don't think this is related to AGW and green technologies.
and then
"with the eventual desire to have all of the peons of the world living in apartments of around 600 square feet stacked one atop the other to reduce the human footprint on the planet".
Manhatan or Hong-kong style appartment buildings ? My point of view is that this is a byproduct of speculation on housing and real estate in general and is unrelated to AGW. Also , modern buildings are not particularly green : they need an elevator which becomes an energy hog after the 10th floor and there is no way to make them energy independent: I've done my calculations : a 4 person household needs at least 4,000 sq foot of land to be energy independent, and that is assuming you get a 100+ mpg car. So , I might not agree with you on the AGW, but I will agree with you on this: anyone who tells me that I should live in a crammed appartment with little space and no greenery should get the middle finger.