Should we shrink our economy to address climate change.....?

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Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/
 
Far be it for me as a Canadian to comment on your nation's internal politics, but global warming does transcend international borders. We of developed nations must do what it takes to lessen the blow the entire world is about to take from a warming earth. It is the developed nations that caused this problem, and the onus is on those nations to take on the lion's share of the remedy.

I must however add, that as an outsider looking in your avatar displays a surprisingly unpatriotic attitude.
 
Well I am sure Hussein would love to do nothing more than to shrink our economy. All the way down to the late 1700's who cares if people are starving, the are just dumb cattle who wanted change, right?
 
Not across the board, but we should shrink it in some areas like oil production and grow it in others like alternative energies.
I think this is pretty common sense to anyone and it will even out gradually. If people just stop spending money out of fear then this will totally screw things up. So if we can spend on sustainable and responsible things then it will be money well spent and we won't have to "shrink" our quality of life that we all love so much.
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I see you don't really want a logical answer to the question, instead a chance to give someone a thumbsdown for one.
 
The answer to EVERY question they have is to shrink our economy. They will never get it.
 
Are we experiencing a climate change? Yes.
Is it anthropogenic global warming? No.

Here are some decent sources:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/4029837/Global-warming-Reasons-why-it-might-not-actually-exist.html
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=b87e3aad-802a-23ad-4fc0-8e02c7bb8284&Region_id=&Issue_id=

The idea is to be objective.

When all is said in done, this man-made global warming scare will have been the biggest scam perpetrated on mankind...trillions of dollars will have changed hands. Gore and company will have made Bernie Maddof look like a petty thief.

Am I for cleaning up the earth? Yes

I'm against junk science and the subsequent legislation based upon it -- costing billions in tax dollars and striking undue fear in people.

I'm tired of the fear-rationale.

It's always the big bad U.S. -- what about China and India? If you subscribe to "global warming" don't you think it'd be just as important to curtail CO2 emissions over there? After all, they do sit in position #1 and #2.

The population is growing and we need to shrink the economy?? Brilliant approach for pushing prices through the roof. Fake-science is not synonymous with real-science where reason, logic and objectivity are embraced.
 
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