Sonntag, 13. Dezember 2009

Don't trust Climate Change Alarmist Politicians!

Representative democracy by definition has to head for the wealth of majorities. Now given the fact that climate change will affect low lands in Asia first and adoption costs in Europe will not harm living quality of our own lives, where is the pressure coming from? Politicians want to claim that they are capable of solving problems.  They have failed directing global economies in the right direction, bad banks aplenty! Similar with automotive industry producing large overhang of luxury fuel wasting cars. Do they really think they may the climate change  topic proving that they are able to be productive? Yes, it seems so, because never in history politicians were assessed by figures, but only by the quality of declarations. So they will present new memorandums as success. The only thing which will really help to introduce science based policies is to amend democracy by an indicator led system. One criteria of course is the share of non voters, but other indicators like transaction losses might be included depicting the energy intensity and independence on energy imports of national and regional economies. Those indicators might be used to form a bonus for politicians adding to their income if they are successful. Apart from direct democracy which is lived in Switzerland, this would be an interesting alternative as  fact based democracy.

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