Thread: Catastrophic Failure of Earth Within the Lifetime of Someone Alive Today!?

Thanks for the explanations, Voldmer.

All the different crusades I mentioned first were - at a first glance - to do with the environment. But on closer inspection they were all misguided, and following them would not in any way have benefited the environment. There is a completely different agenda behind them however: doing whatever it takes to get free enterprise under government control (using ever tougher laws, and - importantly - ever increasing fees, payable to government, for doing business. Witness for example the CO2-allowances, that have to be paid for now - to governments of course).

But some of the policies have been effective in curbing CO2 emissions, as you can see from the graph which shows significant numbers. Protecting forests from being cut down for example, has an impact on absorption of CO2.

I don't know about the secret agenda behind policies. Politicians would advocate different things just to get re-elected. Unfortunately, by being against a particular politician or government policies, a lot of people disregard the issue of climate change altogether.

What matters is, in the very least to acknowlege that certain changes are taking place. If more people care about the environment and the impact our activies have, then we can start making changes in a positive direction.

This is a clear and massive obstruction to free enterprise, and every single person or organisation in favour of freedom and free enterprise should condemn central banking in the strongest terms possible.

I understand you may have criticism regarding the effectiveness of certain central bank policies, but blaming them for being enemy of free enterprise is a bit too much.

While they are independent from government to prevent being influenced by short term political agenda, central bankers are usually appointed by goverment and still acountable to it. The monetary policies usually aim to tackle inflation or promote economic growth and not restrict businesses. In addition, their influence on the value of a currency is not as pronounced as you may think. Central banks can only offer a limited support of one currency (let it appreciate or depreciate it against another) as they have less reserves to intervene on foreign markets than do speculators (banks that trade in currencies for profit). What happens on both domestic and foreign markets has much more influence than actual bank policies.