Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Yes, if it happens you are correct, but that is a very big if.
OK I was just poking fun at you.
But the same thing could be said for your "if we make it expensive here it will go elsewhere so ETS will increase emissions" theory. There's a lot of ifs in that line of reasoning.
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Why is every news outlet reporting that Goff topped the list of MPs' expenses? As far as I can tell, this is not true. Anyone got a link to the actual data?
Here's the ministerial one.
Here's MPs.
Phil Goff is the most expensive MP because MP and Ministerial have been separated. I think that's because they're entirely different sections - parliamentary services and ministerial services. So the MP that cost us the most is McCullly - $350,000 in total. Almost all of that is ministerial expenses.
Goff topped out at about $120 K, so the media reporting seems pretty weak to me. I don't believe that McCully cost us only $12,000 as an MP, he's just put all his expenses down as ministerial.
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Well in that instance there isn't a report.
But complainants and other parties get copies of reports, yes.
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I would also like to know how many students with special needs are educated privately.
I don't have any data, just know that my niece goes to a private (pre) school for this reason, and she isn't the only one.
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<quote>Of course, the Ugandans have a much lower reductions target, but the marginal cost of that extra tonne is much higher for a poor country.</quote
Yes, but that doesn't prevent '1st world' countries reducing their carbon emissions. Some of those activities might go off shore to more emission friendly countries, but others won't. It's not a pure free market there's umpteen other influences in play and countries have to take responsibility for what they produce just as much as what they consume.
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The worlds poor simply cannot afford to.
I'm surprised that you ran with 'free markets rule the world' as your base explanation, and then let this fly.
If the world's poor have to pay more for carbons than they'll charge more for the products they sell. We'll therefore pay for their carbons in our imported coffee and other goods.
(Free Market) Economics 101 is so much fun. Complete nonsense of course.
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Was it butterfly? There's a one style he does in the short suit so he gets better movement from his arms
He warmed up in a full suit, but complained that it didn't feel like it fit him correctly (around the shoulders). So he swapped it for the half suit for the actual race.
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Maybe Phelps was just warming up. He has now won gold in a world record time.
After taking off his full body suit and swimming in a waist down version.
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Well, you don't get many in coal mines. ;-)
I think they found that they were much cheaper than canaries, but much more difficult to keep in the cage.
Plus, how do you tell when a mosquito stops breathing?
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Perhaps it's an out (it more than likely is), but I don't think that individual acts of consumer choice are going to change the fundamentals of our system.
Individual acts of consumer choice will always face the problem that richer people make more and more powerful consumer choices, and have a lot more choices in that regard.
If I made a fair bit more money, I'd be a lot more selective about what I buy and where it comes from and how it was made. I only buy fair trade coffee, but then I don't drink coffee, so that choice only costs me a few dollars a year - people visiting my house. I don't buy fair trade hot chocolate consistently, because that would cost me a heap more money and I don't have it lying around.