<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for E.U. considers pollution charges on imports from U.S. and other climate scofflaws]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by sindark http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:34:13 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/1 WTO

This is sure to lead to a big fight at the World Trade Organization.

a sibilant intake of breath

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This is sure to lead to a big fight at the World Trade Organization.

a sibilant intake of breath

]]> Comment #2 by FuriaFubar http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:47:18 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/2 Who'd a thunkit?

I am glad that states are getting together and making regional and local commitments to decreasing GHG...I am thinking this is because they are closer to us little people who WANT to be clean n green.  Obviously we can't seem to get anything done at the Federal level.  

All the Best, Furia - http://www.xanga.com/furia_fubar

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I am glad that states are getting together and making regional and local commitments to decreasing GHG...I am thinking this is because they are closer to us little people who WANT to be clean n green.  Obviously we can't seem to get anything done at the Federal level.  

All the Best, Furia - http://www.xanga.com/furia_fubar

]]> Comment #3 by GreyFlcn http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:50:51 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/3 maybe

=WTO
This is sure to lead to a big fight at the World Trade Organization.=

Perhaps, but then again, thats putting an equal restriction on both imports and domestic products.

The WTO is really all about creating "level playing fields".

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=WTO
This is sure to lead to a big fight at the World Trade Organization.=

Perhaps, but then again, thats putting an equal restriction on both imports and domestic products.

The WTO is really all about creating "level playing fields".

]]> Comment #4 by lorna salzman http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:01:20 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/under-pressure/4 Border Tax Assessmen

The French first proposed this but the EU idea to tax imports proportionate to their carbon footprint is a superb idea. It should be applied across the board and should take into account not only the CO2 released in the production of goods but in their TRANSPORT to other countries. Then we could start to see the true costs of imported goods. In addition, we need to tax fuel used in international travel, which is now exempt due to some absurd treaty signed decades ago. Full cost pricing is of course anathema to those promoting economic growth and increased consumption, topics in the news in the US today due to the recession. Not  surprisingly everyone is talking about how to get more money into peoples' hands so they can go out and spend it and keep the economy running....exactly the thing that is spurring global warming! (note: polls show that 2/3 of those who have gotten such handouts either save them or use them to pay off debt but no one seems to be saying this). Capitalism as presently constituted depends on continued and untrammeled growth and consumption, so the Marxists should be getting on the no-growth bandwagon if they want to abolish capitalism..though a better reason would be to save the earth.

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The French first proposed this but the EU idea to tax imports proportionate to their carbon footprint is a superb idea. It should be applied across the board and should take into account not only the CO2 released in the production of goods but in their TRANSPORT to other countries. Then we could start to see the true costs of imported goods. In addition, we need to tax fuel used in international travel, which is now exempt due to some absurd treaty signed decades ago. Full cost pricing is of course anathema to those promoting economic growth and increased consumption, topics in the news in the US today due to the recession. Not  surprisingly everyone is talking about how to get more money into peoples' hands so they can go out and spend it and keep the economy running....exactly the thing that is spurring global warming! (note: polls show that 2/3 of those who have gotten such handouts either save them or use them to pay off debt but no one seems to be saying this). Capitalism as presently constituted depends on continued and untrammeled growth and consumption, so the Marxists should be getting on the no-growth bandwagon if they want to abolish capitalism..though a better reason would be to save the earth.

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