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2011-11-03 International-UN-NGOs

UNDP Calls for Currency Tax to Help Poor with Climate Change

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Banning biofuels would be easily the most effective measure to aid the world's poor.

Posted by phil_b 2011-11-03 01:06|| 2011-11-03 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Has to do wid Biofuels taking up all the land for that certain vital thingy Humans like known as CROPS = aka FOOD.

Its an Oldie but always a Goodie.

* ION CC CHINA DAILY FORUM > FUTURE HOLDS MORE EXTREME WEATHER, FLOODS [monsoons], HEAT WAVES [wildfires], DROUGHT | KEY UN CLIMATE REPORT TIES CLIMATE CHANGE TO EXTREME WEATHER.

ARTIC = GWCC, Weather Perts changing their focii towards SUPER-HEAVY RAINSTORMS, as per storm size, frequency, + [abnormal?]droplet composition. SOME LANDS, REGIONS TO LOSE MOST OR ALL OF THEIR HUMAN HABITABILITY.

OTOH ....

* SAME > UN HIRES [new]GRAD STUDENTS TO AUTHOR KEY CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-03 02:08|| 2011-11-03 02:08|| Front Page Top

#3 This tax would be a DISASTER.

Any country that stays out of it will be MILES better off.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-11-03 07:10|| 2011-11-03 07:10|| Front Page Top

#4 "The ~~revenue~~ graft potential is thus huge," it added.

That sez it all.

Posted by Spot 2011-11-03 08:03|| 2011-11-03 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 QE & QE2 caused worldwide commodity inflation. UN graft / redistribution schemes won't help. Firing Bernanke before he can implement QE3 might.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-11-03 08:03|| 2011-11-03 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 ONLY Capitalism (and a shift AWAY from taxing comparative advantage to taxing the things government creates) will save the economy.

Tobin taxes comparative advantage.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-11-03 10:06|| 2011-11-03 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 I am so tired of self important, bureaucratic shits holding out their hand over and over asking for more of my money. They are going to start pulling back a bloody stump.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-11-03 13:12|| 2011-11-03 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Forget about the currency tax. Human-created climate change has not been proven. Banning the U.N. would stamp out considerable corruption and a huge drain on the West. It seems the U.N. would like to bring all industrialized countries down to the level of the world's poorest countries.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-03 15:37|| 2011-11-03 15:37|| Front Page Top

#9 They are going to start pulling back a bloody stump

I thought light saber cauterizes as it cuts.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-03 16:37|| 2011-11-03 16:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Get the U.S. OUT of the U.N. and let the rest of the world GO TO HELL.

Posted by Barbara 2011-11-03 18:10|| 2011-11-03 18:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Before the EUniks start another scheme, they better let things settle down after the PIIGS epidemic is over. They may be one of the poor themselves.

Pretty exciting spending other people's money, eh?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-11-03 18:41|| 2011-11-03 18:41|| Front Page Top

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