Wednesday 19 March 2008

CARBON RATIONING OR FREEDOM

Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, in his address to the recent Climate Change Conference posed the stark choice - carbon rationing or freedom - as what the world is now facing. This article discusses what is at stake. Klaus likens the command and control regime needed to ration carbon to that of the former communist states.

President Klaus said “the dream” to reduce emissions in the EU by 70 per cent in the next 30 years could only be achieved if there was a dramatic de-industrialisation of Europe - likely associated with a dramatic drop in GDP, a significant drop in population, or a technological revolution.

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