
#758 - DIALOGUE: What Should Catholics do About Climate Change?
The Counsel of Trent
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The Importance of Carbon Neutrality
In the US, you can use where you have nimbi-ism to stop environmental projects. The Starbucks rule is that wind turbine companies don't bother to build wind turbines within 30 miles of a Starbucks because people will protest too much about having them there. You have rich people living on Cape Cod who don't want their views obstructed by windmills. These are problems. If we set an unrealistic solution or goal and we fail to reach it, it can be very demoralizing to people. In order to reach carbon neutrality in the US of 2050, it'd be a massive investment of GDP in taxes,. wouldn't it?
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