Comments on: Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy? http://www.augustforecast.com/2010/01/26/carbon-currency-a-new-beginning-for-technocracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=carbon-currency-a-new-beginning-for-technocracy Bringing the Future Into Focus Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:12:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Richard Shropshire http://www.augustforecast.com/2010/01/26/carbon-currency-a-new-beginning-for-technocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Richard Shropshire Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:12:41 +0000 http://www.augustforecast.com/?p=1537#comment-163 Russ, the irony inherent in your comment may have been a bit too subtle. I will be more direct. I just could say that this is a direct application of Plato's Republic, but that may be too indirect. What is proposed is a New World Order Fascist global super state!! What makes this really frightening, is that most people still seem to believe the nonsense that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and not a necessary plant nutrient, and that global "warming" is a threat. Russ, the irony inherent in your comment may have been a bit too subtle. I will be more direct. I just could say that this is a direct application of Plato’s Republic, but that may be too indirect.

What is proposed is a New World Order Fascist global super state!!

What makes this really frightening, is that most people still seem to believe the nonsense that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and not a necessary plant nutrient, and that global “warming” is a threat.

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]]> By: Patrick Wood http://www.augustforecast.com/2010/01/26/carbon-currency-a-new-beginning-for-technocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Patrick Wood Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:01:38 +0000 http://www.augustforecast.com/?p=1537#comment-147 The land angle has merit and is worth researching. The global elite have been flipping land into the fed's hands, e.g., the Nature Conservancy which was formerly run by Henry Paulson. Thousands of farmers and ranchers all over America have sold conservation easements to the Feds in this manner. The Wildlands Project of the UN Global Biodiversity Assessment would be a central player also. http://www.access-advocates.org/images/Wildlands_Project.jpg The land angle has merit and is worth researching. The global elite have been flipping land into the fed’s hands, e.g., the Nature Conservancy which was formerly run by Henry Paulson. Thousands of farmers and ranchers all over America have sold conservation easements to the Feds in this manner. The Wildlands Project of the UN Global Biodiversity Assessment would be a central player also.
http://www.access-advocates.org/images/Wildlands_Project.jpg

]]> By: Russ White http://www.augustforecast.com/2010/01/26/carbon-currency-a-new-beginning-for-technocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Russ White Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:56:39 +0000 http://www.augustforecast.com/?p=1537#comment-146 Here is my guess--carbon will only be one leg of the new currency. Land will be the other. How will the governments of the world "underwrite" all this new economic activity? They need some "base," or "backstop." Remember all that land the US government owns? What if it were to turn all this land over to a UN "trust" in return for "carbon credits?" Unused land acts as a "carbon sink," (really only if its properly managed, but I don't see any realization of this). This would also encourage landowners to sell their land to the government, rather than to other private buyers, since the government could boost its economy by buying private land and enlarging the "trust" they are using to back their "carbon credits." The really "nice" thing about this is it tends to lay waste to non-urban areas, forcing people into cities over time. Everyone runs into financial difficulties, if the government can take advantage of financial problems to soak up the land, and then use that land as a backing for the amount of carbon credits they can issue... Well, so much the better, right? Here is my guess–carbon will only be one leg of the new currency. Land will be the other. How will the governments of the world “underwrite” all this new economic activity? They need some “base,” or “backstop.” Remember all that land the US government owns? What if it were to turn all this land over to a UN “trust” in return for “carbon credits?” Unused land acts as a “carbon sink,” (really only if its properly managed, but I don’t see any realization of this). This would also encourage landowners to sell their land to the government, rather than to other private buyers, since the government could boost its economy by buying private land and enlarging the “trust” they are using to back their “carbon credits.” The really “nice” thing about this is it tends to lay waste to non-urban areas, forcing people into cities over time. Everyone runs into financial difficulties, if the government can take advantage of financial problems to soak up the land, and then use that land as a backing for the amount of carbon credits they can issue… Well, so much the better, right?

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