[Terrapreta] Carbon tax

[Greg and April]

And all I have been saying is that while it may be a laudable belief  -  it's not a practical one.

Imagine a society where every person could bring suit against their government ( or portions there of ).

First one or more persons would sue for one grievance, then because that didn't match ideals of another group they would sue to change it back to the way it was.    It would be total mayhem, and the government would not be able to do anything without someone taking them to court.


In order for something like that to work, it would literally have to be a society where everyone marched in lock step - by choice.


Greg H.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Joyner 
  To: Terra Preta 
  Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 20:41
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Carbon tax


  Greg,

  All I said was that the US gov't and the various state governments have denied and continue to deny, for what ever purpose, equity before the law (specifically, by making it illegal to bring class action suits with regard to the environment and, before that, to deny access to the courts on matters of simple environmental changes) and is very much at the heart of the problems we have. As a people we have very little recourse except through a politicized EPA. 

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