Who’s Afraid of Cap & Trade
From The Bear Deluxe magazine: June 2009
When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere. Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and not cheat. This neutralises [sic] the pain and unhappy emotion and leaves you with a clear conscience.
—Spoof of Cap & Trade schemes at Cheatneutral.com. “Helping you because you can’t help yourself.”
In 2007, psychologist Paul Slovic and his colleagues conducted an obscure experiment in which starving children in Mali were used to quantify the breaking point of human compassion. His findings, and those of others who research the relationship between emotion, logic and the will to act altruistically, speak ill of our efforts to solve such nebulous problems as global warming.… Read More »
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