Economic effects of reducing carbon emissions?

Question

Is there a website I could look ate that states what sort of impact going green would have on the world economically? I can't seem to find anything that talks about this.

Answer 1

CO2 is not the problem. The plants and photosynthesis are taking care of all the CO2. It helps them produce their food.

Answer 2

economic effects?  immediately, the coal and oil industries will start losing money.  lots of money.  that's why they're doing their best to put out any and every excuse that people and politicians can use to not do anything about the problem.  (as in, it's not true, it's not us, it's the sun, mere humans cannot be responsible, we shouldn't change what God has ordained, China, India, and everyone else has to do something first,  it will just be too expensive to fix, .......)

the good news is that once the Bush oil lobby moves out of the White House, things may improve.

Edit:  my word, speakeasy.  what'd you say?

<<In support of Johnny B - CO2 is fertilizer. The more of it, the better the plants grow and the less water they use.>>

from your hortnet link,

<<While humans and animals must eat sugars and proteins to stay alive, plants can live on air and water only. Plant leaves take up carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO2) from the air and bind it to water (H2O) to produce sugars (C6H12O6) and oxygen (O2).>>

first, i generally think of a fertilizer as something like a vitamin for a plant.  whereas water, CO2, etc are the growing medium.  but that's not the point at the moment.

you said the more CO2 plants use, the less water they use.  might you be interested in explaining the chemistry involved?  do they produce a different kind of sugar that contains less hydrogen?  maybe you ought to get in touch with the agricultural scientists, and explain how that works.  i'm sure they'll be waiting with baited breath.

Answer 3

There are none (meaning no negative effects economically by becoming energy independent), we would just move from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable one.  The good news is there will be more jobs created than currently exist in the fossil fuel industry.  If you ever notice, it is only the powerful who have loads of money invested in oil that tell you we will go directly into a depression if we reduce our carbon emissions.  You can live high on the hog and have a very little carbon foot print.

Answer 4

Reducing carbon emissions directly means reducing productivity that generates carbon.  As Bill Clinton said on January 30, 'we will have to slow the US economy to fight global warming'.  That's what Kyoto and the new Carbon Offsets are really about.

In support of Johnny B - CO2 is fertilizer. The more of it, the better the plants grow and the less water they use.  Our world is starved for CO2, which was depleted during the last Ice Age.  Only now is it recovering, slowly climbing back to the level at which the Earth can support megafauna and megaflora.

Greenhouse growers know this.  That's why they use artificial CO2 generators to help the carbon-starved plants grow better.

LIFE LOVES A GREENHOUSE

Answer 5

Hm. I apologize if this is insufficient. In truth there are some benefits to social strategies like carbon taxation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. There could be possible increased investment in renewables, as well as augmented pressure on the industrial sector to pursue greener-technologies in the interest of maintaining cost-efficiency (the more smoke you belch the more you will pay). Carbon tax, a revenue-neutral tax can facilitate "tax-shifting". Tax shifting is the idea that revenues collected by this green tax would offset other taxes like the income tax, small business tax, corporate tax, etc. In addition, people may not find this increase favorable eventually pushing them to look for alternatives, exceedingly in transportation. A carbon tax could have the effect of improving public transportation infrastructure, which many have an adverse effect on the automobile industry, an industry that has many dependants (especially in North America). I'm not sure about the overall global economic impact, I'm sorry if my answer only enables you to consider regional impacts. Try looking for Jeffrey Sachs.