{"id":948,"date":"2009-11-08T05:37:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:37:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:37:50","slug":"cap-and-trade-will-not-reduce-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/cap-and-trade-will-not-reduce-emissions.php","title":{"rendered":"Cap and Trade Will not Reduce Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two EPA lawyers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/30\/AR2009103002988.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">write<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Offsets -- considered indispensable to keeping cap-and-trade affordable -- are supposed to be \"additional\" reductions beyond what is legally required. But experience with offsets in Europe and California has shown that ensuring real \"additionality\" is not an achievable goal.<\/p><p>Suppose, for example, that a landowner is paid not to cut his forest so that it can continue capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Purchasing this offset allows owners of a coal-fired power plant to burn extra coal, above the cap.<\/p><p>But if the landowner wasn't planning to cut his forest, he just received a bonus for doing what he would have done anyway. Even if he was planning to cut his forest and doesn't, demand for wood isn't reduced. A different forest will be cut. Either way, there is no net reduction in production of greenhouse gases.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Here is a different example of \"offset.\"  A friend comes to me and says, \"I want to have an affair, but if I did I would feel guilty about increasing marital discord in the world.  So I want you to forego that affair your were \"planning\" to have.  That way, the net number of affairs does not go up, and I will not feel guilty.\"<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d054a_6379328854053402400-4462401649518952962?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two EPA lawyers write:Offsets -- considered indispensable to keeping cap-and-trade affordable -- are supposed to be \"additional\" reductions beyond what is legally required. But experience with offsets in Europe and California has shown that ensuring real \"additionality\" is not an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/cap-and-trade-will-not-reduce-emissions.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}