Re: Patrick Bond on climate change strategy
On Apr 24, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Patrick Bond wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
But what about the rest of the economy? Metals have their uses beyond direct job creation.
Sure, but you’d agree - if you do think job one is avoiding climate catastrophe - that an enormous amount of waste (especially in aluminum and steel consumption) can be chopped out of a modern economy by rationing these energy-intensive ingredients, no?
Of course, that’s the point of raising hydrocarbon costs. But that’s
what first concerned me about your desire to soak the heavy
industrial users - the benefits of their work may not be immediately
apparent. You’d have to do some pretty complex input-output analysis
to figure out economic contributions, which would make simple energy
intensity the determinant of the tax rate a very misleading metric.
Doug