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[kandrathe]

this subject for me is a clear instance in which free market economy and also Kandrathe's libertarian solutions won't work.

Done. eppie has spoken. The free market and any possible liberal reform is impossible.

The subject of collective problems and collective solutions is for me a reason not to fully embrace the free market economy.

And, ergo, the solution is collectivism? Or, feudalism?

People are A not smart enough, and B to selfish to really change something as an unorganized group.

There would be a movement were it not killed by the interference of government and propagandists.

It required a trendy movie from Al Gore to make people think about climate change.....20 years after the CO2/extra heating connection was found 95 % true......we have been watsing 20 years to go from a 95% certainty to a 99% certainty....and in that time oru energy use has skyrocketed.....the sale of SUVs in europe to people that only use there car in town or in the highway has increased 100 fold.

You mean the trendy propaganda, that is laced with untruth and outright deception?

Now it needed a big crisis and a lot of bankrupt companies to finally start making some progress in the commercialization of hybrid and electrical cars......if GM, Ford, Toyota etc. cpould still make loads of money on SUVs we still wouldn't have seen any change.

Nice. Maybe when other industries begin the fail, the government should just buy them up and make them produce what the Congress believes to be the "proper" products.

The problem is the invisibility of the problem and the invisibiltiy of the use of protecting the environment.

Did you know that in the USA we have the Clean Air Act, clean water laws, and a myriad of other environmental protections that are working. One big gaping hole in that are coal fired power plants which have some deal with the EPA.

If every time when you went on holiday to a beach on the other end of the world you would see dying panda's and deadly ill babies people would cut back on flying. With the CO2/heating, you don't get to see the results of behaving responsibly.....maybe after 20 years you see (hopefully nothing) something. Mix that with people claiming that the climate issue is all a hoax, and it is very easy for people not to do anything.

Yes, I'm sure that baby panda's coughing up blood on tourists would shut down the tourism industry.

I consider myself a responsible person in this sense but I also now that I could probably cut my energy use down 30 % without major problems. What would you think people that think gloabl warming doesn't exist or people that don't care would do?

That would be nice. You will be making room for the 30% increased energy use by China.

We need rules for consumers and for industry to make sure everybody does his share.

Which was what I said. The rule is... "You keep your own yard clean, or you pay to have it cleaned up for you." ...and, one backyard at a time, we clean up the planet. The government would help by making ecological tort claims easier to file, and to better hold polluters accountable.