Bound to Burn

The Cap and Trade system (or taxes) will not eliminate CO2. What is needed (if CO2 is an issue) is to protect and promote the planet’s carbon sinks—the systems that suck carbon back out of the air and bury it. What is it? Keep reading.... from City Journal:

Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth. However, we don’t control the global supply of carbon.

Like medieval priests, today’s carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. It will run you about $500 for 5 tons of forgiveness—about how much the typical American needs every year. Or about $2,000 a year for a typical four-person household. Your broker will spend the money on such things as reducing methane emissions from hog farms in Brazil. But if you really want to make a difference, you must send a check large enough to forgive the carbon emitted by four poor Brazilian households, too—because they’re not going to do it themselves. To cover all five households, then, send $4,000.

Green plants currently pump 15 to 20 times as much carbon out of the atmosphere as humanity releases into it—that’s the pump that put all that carbon underground in the first place, millions of years ago.

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