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If global warming/climate change (call it what you will) is happening and if it is caused by CO2 and other gases produced by human activity then that is a form of pollution for which there is a fairly simple remedy.
Yeah but, the whole argument about global warming is that the harm is not going to happen until well into the future by which time the perpetrators may well already be dead or unable to pay.
- Oh I dunno about that. If someone pumps blue asbestos fibres into my house I won’t die straight away but there would be a good chance of me doing so at a later date. And as a consequence I could sue them. In the case of global warming what the future victims would have to do would be to prove that there was a good chance of disaster happening at a future date.
What if global warming is not being caused by humans?
- A very good question and I am not quite sure what I think about it. I think it’s a bit like what happens if your hotel falls into the sea. Well, you move to somewhere a bit safer. In the case of global warming you move north or inland - after all, there’s plenty of places in those directions in Canada and Siberia.
But that might not be the best option. The best ie most efficient option might be to prevent global warming happening at all.
- Which probably requires some form of global government. And governments mean force and I don’t like force. And, it being a government programme, there are bound to be all sorts of unintended consequences even assuming that the programme works on its own terms, which I doubt.
Hi Patrick.
Wondered what you thought about car sharing as a halfway solution to solving the private/state road ownership. In Canada car sharers have priority of a fast lane without having to pay a toll like on the M6. I share a car to work everyday from london to oxford and am a member of Streetcar for when I need a car at the weekends. I pay 4.95 an hour for the time when I can’t do without a car (a B&Q;trip on sat), not bad really.
Posted by Will on 7 March 2007