How come saving the world is costing us so much money?

Question

Everything hybrid, solar and made out of plants or natural things are costing more than anything we still use.

Answer 1

It wouldn't cost so much money if we would just go back to the barter system.

Answer 2

because the good things are always expensive and the bad things are cheap. Just like food.

Answer 3

That is honestly a really good question.

They say we need to stop global warming so they make special cars that will do so, but then they charge way too much for those items.

It is always more difficult to fix the things that were once damaged, in almost everything you do.

It is confusing, but the only way to be less confused is to ask more questions, right?

Good luck! =]

Answer 4

its just another way to make money,and its a trendy thing right  now. just think of all the trees that had to be cut for all this money

Answer 5

Because----- coal, natural gas, and other petroleum products  are the cheapest forms of energy known to man --- right now. Everything else costs more. In some cases LOTS more.

Answer 6

Because if you believe AGW is the end of the world, then you are willing to sacrifice for your salvation.  L Ron Hubbard is rolling over in his grave, wishing he thought of AGW.

Cap & Trade is a disease posing as a cure.

Answer 7

Since socialists don't believe in private property, they're willing to take and spend everything you own.  Global warming theory is a means to that end....just look at the mechanics of the carbon trading racket.

Edit (grizzbr1 below):  "Because money is little more than a measure of human labour"....couldn't be further from the truth if you tried!!  Human labor is measured in units called "man hours".  Man hours are merely one component of a product/service's cost.  Money is a measure of VALUE, a medium of exchange, and a store of wealth.

If guy A can cut my grass in an hour, and guy B takes 4 hours, your definition of money would have me paying guy A $40 and guy B $160!

Answer 8

Why is "saving the world" so costly to humans?    Because they care more about harming humans than saving anything.

“If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it…” – Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute.

“The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world”

– John Shuttleworth, founder of Mother Earth News.

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t our responsibility to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, Secretary General 1992 UN Earth Summit

“Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.” – Pentti Linkola

We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. —David Foreman, Earth First!

The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.

—Economist editorial

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.—David Foreman, Earth First!

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.—Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!

If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS.  Ã¢Â€Â”Earth First! Newsletter

I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.

—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental”– David Foreman, founder of Earth First!

“If there is going to be electricity at all, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered”– Gar Smith

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States…”– Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

“Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.”

– John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. - Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)

We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion -- guilt-free at last! -- Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue)

Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets...Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans.—Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project

If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.—Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.—Carl Amery

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.—Lamont Cole

Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

This is an anti-human, anti-progress, anti-civilization movement.     The only thing that has changed is the pretext for their argument:

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.—Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. —Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

Answer 9

Because the external costs of the things we use are currently not included in the upfront cost of the item.

If these external costs were included, the total environmental cradle-to-grave costs, the conventional items we use would easily be 10x what we currently pay.

At the real cost, environmentally friendly products are a bargain.  

This is the truth of our current situation.  We enjoy our abundance because we think things are cheap, but they really are not.

A simple sustainable life is, in reality, all we can afford.

Answer 10

1. Because money is little more than a measure of human labour and our current economic models have never before factored in the cost of environmental damage.  

2. Developing new technologies is always more expensive until the economies of scale kick in (i.e. the price of iPods goes down as more are produced).

3. New technology requires new Laws to govern its safety.  Take for example this quote regarding the development of the ENV, the first fuel cell powered motorbike:

"We are currently working towards type approval for the ENV motorcycle. This is a challenge because it is the first machine to go for European type approval and therefore, the relevant codes and standards are not yet written.We are having to write the rules!

The process involves firstly extensive testing and approval down to single component level, at specialist approved test facilities that are set up for using hydrogen, and secondly the refining and proving of various aspects of the bike's overall performance on private roads, test tracks and other specialist vehicle testing facilities. All of this is under the close scrutiny of the relevant type approvals body."

Answer 11

gotta spend money to make money

Answer 12

How come medical/health care costs so much?

Because it's worth it?

What did you expect, some fellow in rags walking into the UN saying, "Worlds saved, only $10! Special offer today, 2 for the price of one!!"?

Generally, when you use cheap cr*p, it causes more problems than it's worth - we've been using cheap cr*p for a couple of centuries now... The good stuff always costs more!

P.S. Don't worry about it, once everyone starts using it, it comes down in price.

Answer 13

its easier to mess things up than fix them... Rip apart some paper.... now put it back together... see what i mean?

Answer 14

Some of the money goes to environmentalists to promote it.

Some of the money goes to politicizations not to ban or tax it.

Some of the money goes to carbon credits to cover the guilt of the pollution created to produce it.

Then there is the markup people who believe in global warming are willing to pay, to cool the earth's fever.

Oh yes, and the cost to produce the product.

If it was not environmentally friendly, there would only be the  profit of the evil, greedy, selfish capitalists.  Which is less.

Answer 15

Solar and wind power supposedly requires many acres of land to work unlike conventional energy sources.  That will require taking more land from people via eminent domain and supposedly using this land for wind and solar "farms."  But we know that they are doomed to fail just as any other attempts were designed to fail and be temporary (just like MPG standards now are a lot lower than they were in the 80s and 90s).  So despite stealing our money to subsidize something that was designed to fail and bring us back to where we were in the first place, they'll still have all that land to keep for themselves and do whatever they want with it.  Mission accomplished!

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