UN to Control Global Industry & Energy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
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Among the tools that are considered are the cap-and-trade system for controlling carbon emissions that has been espoused by the Obama administration; “carbon taxes” on imported fuels and energy-intensive goods and industries, including airline transportation; and lower subsidies for those same goods, as well as new or higher subsidies for goods that are considered “environmentally sound.”

Other tools are referred to only vaguely, including “energy policy reform,” which the report indicates could affect “large-scale transportation infrastructure such as roads, rail and airports.” When it comes to the results of such reform, the note says only that it could have “positive consequences for alternative transportation providers and producers of alternative fuels.”

In the same bland manner, the note informs negotiators without going into details that cap-and-trade schemes “may induce some industrial relocation” to “less regulated host countries.” Cap-and-trade functions by creating decreasing numbers of pollution-emission permits to be traded by industrial users, and thus pay more for each unit of carbon-based pollution, a market-driven system that aims to drive manufacturers toward less polluting technologies.

The note adds only that industrial relocation “would involve negative consequences for the implementing country, which loses employment and investment.” But at the same time it “would involve indeterminate consequences for the countries that would host the relocated industries.”
There are also entirely new kinds of tariffs and trade protectionist barriers such as those termed in the note as “border carbon adjustment”— which, the note says, can impose “a levy on imported goods equal to that which would have been imposed had they been produced domestically” under more strict environmental regimes.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/27/hey-why-not-let-the-un-run-the-energy-sector/

[TheSarge]

Andrew Wilkow is reading the provisions of this scheme on his show right now.

We should ALL be very afraid right now if this thing goes through.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Andrew Wilkow is reading the provisions of this scheme on his show right now.

We should ALL be very afraid right now if this thing goes through.

Here's the part that should move you from "afraid" to "screaming hysterics":

The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.

Same news article.

[TheSarge]

Here's the part that should move you from "afraid" to "screaming hysterics":

Same news article.

What the U.N. is proposing and what this administration seems willing to submit to...is a One World^tm tax with some very vague rules and some extremely impossible standards to meet that basically puts control of this country into the hands of a governing body that hates us.

It takes what Billy Jeff started and moves it to another extreme.

[NHSparky]

I guess I better start updating my resume to go from electrical maintenance at a nuclear power plant to cart pusher calling, "Bring out yer dead!"

[DumbAss Tanker]

Well, I for one welcome the long-overdue supervision of our new enlightened overlords!

 

 

[NHSparky]

You mean like this?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Heheh, yep, that was pretty much what I had in mind!

[thundley4]

At this point point, I seriously expect 0Bama to sign any treaty the UN proposes if it further cripples the US.  I would be disappointed if he did anything less.   At what point does congress and 0bama cross the line between breaking their oaths of office, and outright treason?

[Hawkgirl]

Do Americans realize what they voted for in November of 2008 ?!?!?!?

I know most of Obama supporters are illiterate, uneducated, or hollyweird type buffoons..but I don't think anyone (save the ultra liberal moonbats) realized just how far left this administration would/may take us.

[rich_t]

At this point point, I seriously expect 0Bama to sign any treaty the UN proposes if it further cripples the US.  I would be disappointed if he did anything less.   At what point does congress and 0bama cross the line between breaking their oaths of office, and outright treason?

That line has already been crossed.

[DixieBelle]

I never thought I would miss bad former presidents so much. YIKES.....

[rich_t]

I never thought I would miss bad former presidents so much. YIKES.....

Can we PLEASE have Jimmy Carter back?

[happy1ga]

I never thought I'd live to see the day people would be begging for the return of Billy Jeff or Jimmy. Hell surely has frozen over from Climate Change. However, good news for the kooks, Obama's plan to remake America in to a cesspool, is right on target! Lucky us, it's like a combo of the Clinton/Carter years, then put on steroids. This is also growing faster than MRSA, and coincidentally they are both flesh-eating diseases.