Environment -- Capping-and-Trading Carbon Credits - Why Stop There?
Some of the proposed solutions for global warming like capping-and-trading of carbon credits can actually be transferred to other sectors and applied to other pressing social problems. Take education in general, and illiteracy in particular, for example. Why not create an artificial scarcity of illiteracy just like creating an artificial scarcity of carbon dioxide emissions? Just like both the private sector and the Congress are working in parallel tracks to determine a cap on the kind of "carbon footprint" that private corporations can have without incurring any penalties, the Congress, private sector and the municipalities can also work on an artificial cap on the percentage of illiteracy that will be allowed in a city, county, state, or even corporation. ...
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