I think the question with cap and trade isn't a moral issue: current disparities in emissions can be accounted for by placing different caps on different countries and I don't see anything morally wrong with allowing people to purchase the right to emit more (CO2 being a well mixed gas and all). The question is whether it works once you include all the inevitable offsets for which it's difficult to ensure additionality.
Set up a system that works and I won't have a problem with the trading. I think it would be pretty hypocritical to buy into capitalism and then reject cap and trade as a bad, nasty, evil market.
- nomad 2012-05-01 19:43:14 (50 views)
- shikantaza 2012-05-01 20:39:25 (51 views)
