The Giant Carbon Scam Made Simple — by Odysseus
Carbon production is a chemical byproduct of “activity” of any kind. It is the nature of the chemistry of this planet. When an animal sits and does nothing, it breathes less and, consequently, produces less carbon dioxide. When any human, animal or machine does what physics defines as “work”, it uses oxygen, chemically combining (burning) it with with carbon and leaving carbon dioxide as a byproduct. This is true for trilobites, fish, dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, whales, apes, man, and man’s machines. The more “work” being done, e.g., dirt moved, speed traveled, thing manufactured, typically, the greater the output of carbon, per the first law of thermodynamics.
Thus, if we are measuring carbon production as a negative and allotting “carbon credits” because each person is only allotted a defined number of carbon “chits” per year, who is the biggest carbon “saver”? Who spends the least carbon per year, thereby, “saving up” chits? Answer: the street bum. He does no work. He owns no property. He buys no items, thereby, not contributing to the carbon of their production). He consumes little food and exerts himself very little by lying on the sidewalk. The less he even talks, the less carbon he produces. He who produces the least, participates the least, and contributes the least is the most rewarded. The vagrant is “carbon rich”. Any effort exerted to be economically productive or upwardly mobile will count against him or anyone else.
Globally, the same mathematics apply. The countries that are the least productive, most primitive, undeveloped, and backward will be the most rewarded by “saving” the most “carbon chits”. The less a country has to offer, the greater its “wealth” of unproductivity, thus, creating a disincentive for any kind of development. Since dictatorships and oligarchies are the norm for political structure in these places, it will be the ruling families that reap the reward for their countries’ lack of productivity. Industrial nations or companies cannot “buy” the carbon credits from the single woman in the grass hut and her nine children. They will negotiate with the “government” to purchase the cumulative carbon chits “left unused” by the languid populace of third and fourth world dictatorships. It will be the dictators who will enjoy the benefits of their subjects’ “thrift”.
“Cap and Trade” or any other “carbon credit” scheme is almost the perfect Ayn Randian negative-utopian paradigm for rewarding the useless while discouraging the productive, rewarding the stupid while punishing the intelligent, rewarding the slothful while punishing the industrious. It is diabolically brilliant in its direct simplicity. So why would any government even dream of creating a system to actually shrink productivity? Why would a government or political leader — other than a third world despot of a malarial cesspit — seek a policy that would attack the engines of human prosperity and their own economic/political/military power base? Answer: because they have another agenda. This is merely a subterfuge.
The proponents of this amazing proposition have one of the following — or both — as the real aim of such an ambitious scheme of unproven benefit for a scientifically shaky theory of a possible problem. Since this makes the vagrants of the world “rich” by actually placing a monetary value on their degree of “worthlessness”, it is direct, law-based redistribution of wealth from the productive (wealthy) to the useless/indolent/ignorant (poor). Since ,over the last one hundred years the proponents have been unable to convince the industrious that they are morally obligated to the support the non-productive gratis, they have created a new system by which they hope to fool people into thinking they are “purchasing” something of value from the worthless, rather than merely “giving them money”. Cloaking “Feed the World” in the vestments of “science” rather than in “morality/religion” is the new scheme for pushing wealth re-distribution, and little more.
The second aim is raw power. For at least the last one hundred years, governments have sought to micromanage the lives of their citizens (subjects) through control of money. They incentivize certain behavior and disincentivize other behaviors through uses of taxes and subsidies as well as legislation requiring compliance through participation in certain businesses (e.g., requiring purchase of insurance, requiring licensing, giving tax breaks, and extra tax penalties, etc.) This method gave the governments greater influence over the micromanagement of their subjects lives than ever before in human history, as individuals scurried to stay “in compliance” with a system that could be relatively easily monitored through modern accounting practices (audits).
A “carbon credit” scheme could grant governments “audit” power over even the most minute activity of any company, business or individual since every activity from moving about down to merely breathing can be estimated into “carbon credits”. When an individual is found to have exceeded his carbon usage for the month, he may be ordered to stop speaking out against any new “carbon regulation” legislation proposed by the oligarchy since speaking produces more carbon dioxide than remaining silent. If he is too far into carbon debt, perhaps he can be made to stop breathing.
