Global Warming Solution Or Wall Street Profiteering?
The world is getting warmer! Humans are polluting and their pollution is making the world warmer faster! Unfortunately even I agree with this claim. The debate is how much humans really impact the rising temperatures. But that debate is not for today. If we want to curb our use of polluting energy sources, the government needs to enact some kind of legislation, else we’ll never get on board since energy is so cheap (yes, this is cheap). One of the most popular suggestions to control the amount of CO2 we pump into the air is a system that is now known as cap and trade. Cap and trade is appropriately named, it starts with the government putting a cap on the amount of CO2 that can be placed into the air. This regulation is done at the corporate level, so think about power companies. They are also given credits which allow them to expel their CO2. If the company uses less than they were allotted, they can sell their credits to other firms that would like to pollute more than their fair sha
