Exploring Hydrocarbon Depletion
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Posted: Mon 25 Apr 2016, 20:04:34ROCKMAN wrote:ralfy - Between the combination of population growth and the desire of most to improve their lives is there any system that doesn't require growth?
Posted: Mon 25 Apr 2016, 20:10:01onlooker wrote:Or another way of putting it is can humans learn to live without growth either population or in consumption etc. ?
Posted: Mon 25 Apr 2016, 20:16:18Posted: Wed 18 May 2016, 04:42:31Last Earth Day world leaders gathered to sign a global climate accord, offering ambitious emission pledges — more aspirational that substantive — that leave wide open the question of how all this will actually be accomplished.
Fortunately, clean capitalists lead the way. Crushing costs, big wind and solar just beat gas or coal on unsubsidized price alone, with lowest levelized costs for best executed and sited plants in 2015. The strong forecast-beating trend is clear: surging growth, profitability and competitiveness are here now, at the leading edge, with more on the way.
The most stunning implication of this market disruption? When unsubsidized profits appear in industries with strong tech driven cost reduction curves, tax rates on profits suddenly matter, a lot. These can have a strong effect on growth by boosting returns, thus attracting new investment. So suddenly tax rates become a powerful policy tool. One as yet unconsidered by most climate policy experts or economists or world leaders.