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RE: Libertarians and the Environment
Doesn't China have less government regulations and more pollution?
I think the government should protect life and liberty and I think some of our environmental regulations do make sense.
Just imagine if we used the above suggested and let people take control of situations like happened with BP, no one would be in control, we'd have to wait for all those affected to gather round and decide how to deal with it, start a boycott of the company to apply pressure all while letting oil continue to spill into the ocean.
The article talks of fair and free global trade but doesn't address the concern that since we've gone to globalization agenda CO2 has increased substantially. There is a direct correlation in some research that has shown despite all the actions taken CO2 have not decreased but increased and the explanation for that increase can be see happening as the expansion of globalized trade increased over the years. There are thousands of more trucks on the road delivering goods and services greater distances than there every was before. If you read the treaties involved with trade there is language in there that basically states environmental concerns cannot be cause to hinder the flow of trade globally. That's exactly what happened a few years ago with the dolphins being caught in tuna nets. The US passed restrictions on what type of netting could be used to catch tuna without harm to dolphins, that only tuna caught using this netting could be sold in the US. The world trade body objected and said that third world fishermen couldn't afford these types of restrictions, so the US said the requirements would be for coastal waters and they still objected. That's how we came about the labeling procedure on tuna cans that say dolphin safe, it was the only compromise the world trade body would accept. Anybody can continue to trap dolphins in their nets the only safety factor dolphins have is the conscious decision of buyers to buy only tuna labeled as caught free of dolphins.
So yeah it just kills me when I see people argue about having to pay more for something then in the next breathe complain about global warming, it's no wonder that these people can't see what perilous conditions some of these people in China and third world countries live in to produce their cheap products.
I'm not that concerned about global warming and CO2 but I am VERY concerned about eating plastic. I think people would care more if they realized how much plastic they are eating and the pollution that is in our oceans. I think we should cut money we give to the UN and use it to clean up the oceans. We should also put more pressure on countries like China to be cleaner. China and other countries need to end air and water pollution.
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On the site it says that it doesn't work for people you up vote just for the votes that people give you that fall short.
Correct. You don't want upvotes people give you to count?
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I really didn't understand it much, what is the article trying to say that if you don't make .28 cents in up votes or a person's up vote isn't worth .28 it don't count or if someone up votes you and it doesn't add up to a whole penny, like it's a fraction of a penny.
Nothing below .020 gets paid out.
Hey....where's my upvote?....lol, just kidding.