Unless we've mispriced the environmental cost of the extra emissions, then in those circumstances 6x current emissions would indeed be the best solution. There would be a lot of environmental problems, but a vast amount of money that could be used to tackle those problems (six times current emissions would be about 150 billion tons, which at $50 per ton would generate US$750 billion per year, over 1% of total world GDP).
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Date: 2008-12-11 12:17 pm (UTC)