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| Solar Frickin Roads, Park Benches; YOU get to PAY, across the World ! |
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| RJSV:
Did I read the news, hear the news from the current United Nations meeting, correctly ? Didn't catch the details, but sounds like the, uh, 'rich' nations can get a Climate Tax. My best first guess is that the rich have success partially due to a bunch of factories spewing pollution, (and atmosphere harming carbon build-up / CO2 build-up. So, that industrial success must, fairly, PAY their way...Uh, that would be YOU, kind reader. Wow. My mind is 'reeling', to use a colorful Jimi Hendrix lyric. Trying to anticipate what that will entail: Somebody, or committee gets to decide, which regions pay what fees, (as pollution mitigation), or, ah now I remember, termed as greenhouse gas 'mitagation'. So, then with a big fund banked, some committee, again, will decide the distribution, or re-distribution, to various underperforming regions. The third aspect, of this whole thing, is the potential, for all kinds of waste and silliness. Eight Billion $ dollars, for 'Outhouse emission stacks, (with solar panels), in Czegasigastania. Ok, I made that one up, and the actual stories there HAVE GOT TO BE better, irony-wise than anything sarcastic point I could attempt! But it's that third point, above that is getting to my sense of the absurd. I've watched, locally, as Climate Change has taken hold of weather patterns. Since about 2005 I guess, some miserable changes, both with Bay Area marine layers (heavy fog) that last all day, to extreme heat dangers. We need solutions, but it's a pain to see the exploitation of our suffering...with the proposals that raise doubts about effectiveness . |
| TimFox:
If we need solutions to a problem, perhaps there will be costs associated to solving the problems. |
| SiliconWizard:
Maybe we also need a couple problems to a solution. |
| Analog Kid:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 25, 2024, 04:24:59 am ---Maybe we also need a couple problems to a solution. --- End quote --- Egg-ackley! That's my take on AI, or at least self-driving cars: a solution in search of a problem. |
| RJSV:
Yes but I'm thinking of solutions like this: Solar Powered Porta-Commode, with 10 meter vent stack, 45 inch display screen (for listing patrons during 'busy spells'. All paper mache construction, for composting when at end of service life. Includes Coin Toss bucket, for religious purposes, and 29 prayer wheels. Women must be wearing Elvis T-shirts, and pay double. All that above was lame attempt to get the reader to LOATH the product, they are forced to subsidies, off in some little distant country. Fill in your own lame example, please. But the idea being that a person may not LIKE to send their money off to places where they have moral or ethical issues. What that little country, getting the 'greenhouse' subsidies has been getting credible accusations of genocide, and of fraudulent diversion of the (your) funds. That plus the feeling of lack of control, and lack of meaningful enforcement of diversion fraud,...by your own country (originating payments). |
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