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Category: Environment, Society & Politics
Points:
Global warming (GW) is unstoppable  
  • but: As global warming becomes more serious, governments will act to prevent it  +83.87%

    • because: governments can use taxes to make greenhouse gas emissions too expensive  +83.87%

      • but: Governments that raise taxes lose elections  

        • but: Environmentally-aware electorates like green taxation  

        • but: Not all governments face elections  

      • but: More taxes are bad for the economy  -83.87%

        • but: Global warming is worse for the economy than taxes (Economics of global warming (2009) ) +83.87%

        • but: Taxes can be revenue neutral (Wikipedia: Ecotax (2009)) 

    • but: Actually, every citizen plays an important role in protecting the environment.  

    • but: Governments are not the god, they cannot do whatever they want. Also, global warming doesn't come suddenly. People takes decades to create it and to stop it.  

    • but: there are no current practical methods of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere  

    • but: By the time the effects of GW are seen it will be too late to prevent it  

      • because: greenhouse gases stay in the atmosphere for a long time (Wikipedia: Greenhouse gas (2009) Section: Global warming potential) 

  • because: World governments blame other countries for climate change (Wikipedia: Global warming (2009) Section: Responses to global warming) +83.87%

  • because: 385ppm CO2 puts us already over the tipping point (Wikipedia: Tipping Point (2009) para. 4) 

  • because: greenhouse gas producers are more politically powerful than environmentalists  


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