In some ways the costs of mitigating climate change are akin to the costs of defending the country from aggression. In both cases, the consequenses of succuss are that life goes on as normal, while t… (View Post)

Presumably that's why Trump likes them so much. They're a tax, but people don't realise that they're a tax. (View Post)

I suspect that the benefits of that economic growth have been very skewed very much to the advantage of the richer Americans. But it's hard to see how Trump's policies are likely to do anything other… (View Post)

Also, it's much easier see with hindsight which projects were a waste of money than it is to say in advance which projects will be a waste of money. (View Post)

I'm mostly feeling sorry for the next generation as they head out into a world of might-is-right and environmental devastation. (View Post)