Let's be realistic. Next week this talkfest involving just seven countries and a few guest countries like Australia will be forgotten. Ordinary members of the public - even if they registered that it was on - won't have taken any notice of what was said at it and by whom. By the next one, most of us won't know whether or not the waffle from this one had any practical results. All the politicians attending have tried their best to outwoke each other. The leader of the free world has made a complete fool of himself. It would have been best for all of the fools to stay at home - just like they have forced the rest of us to do.

Anybody who blindly believes that carbon tariffs will be banned by the WHO, is patently delusional!

Cost of living and doing business would be literally halved if we simply outlawed, paper shuffling and profit demanding middlemen! And even more so if all sales and distribution was via the factory direct model, we'd not only reduce costs by around two thirds but eliminate the cascading tax that goes with it, that is invariably passed on!

Then if we embrace cooperative capitalism. no enterprise will be rendered virtually bankrupt by unsustainable wages and wages growth.

Then costs can be further lowred by genuine, bracket creep free, tax reform, as a 15 flat tax garnered from all profits earned here!

Then there is the current and rediculous cost of energy which given nuclear power and the sane selection of type, could be as low as 1 cent PKWH!

Further, if the current incompetents in power were replaced with the strikingly competent. We could realise an ambition to remove crisis riddled incompetent state governments and thus liberate an additional 70+ annual billion for nation-building/debt reduction!

With but one exception, we remain the most over-governed nation on the planet! Most of who have only one real and unparalleled skill and that skill is, selling insane ideological imperatives to idiots who haven't a clue what they're buying?
Alan B

Referring to Frederic Bastiat's letter, I like it how people in 1845 looked at and based their decisions on fundamental principles, rather than on whim as most do today.

Current farm machinery and vehicles can be powered exclusively by the on-farm production of biogas. Organic material can be collected by large solar-powered grass cutting, rock and log avoiding robots, which could also cut by remaining unpalatable weeds, which as biodegradable organic material can be reduced to biogas, reusable irrigation water plus carbon-rich moisture-retaining soil improver! And the production of same can be totally automated!

Plus, is a carbon-neutral solution that may include some ongoing carbon benefits scheme? Given the amount of carbon, this solution would also add annually to the soil!

Any and almost all costs are front-loaded and known! And as a viable fuel source exclude all the usual profit and tax adding middlemen! And given that salient fact! Would present well in any cost-benefit analysis and finance outcomes!
Alan B.

Correction. Cut by should be read as simply recorrected, cut any remaining unplayable weeds. Weeds don't cut! robotic mowers can and do!
Alan.

Alan B,

No one here has claimed that the WTO will ban carbon-based tariffs. However, a carbon-based tariff is treated as any other tariff and can be immediately subject to a retaliatory tariff of equal magnitude.

This is why carbon-based tariffs are frequently suggested and slapped down.