The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Monday, June 8, 2015

Ask Tom Paine about political attempts to tie the hands of future generations

Most of these folks will be dead by 2050 and all of them by 2100.

G7 leaders agree to phase out fossil fuel use by end of century

Huge costs will be imposed by this on the ordinary people of the G7 nations, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States, for which China, India, and the rapidly industrializing portions of the Third World, not to mention Eastern Europe and Russia, will be deeply grateful.

And to make it worse, there is this.

She also announced that G7 governments had signed up to initiatives to work for an end to extreme poverty and hunger, reducing the number of people living in hunger and malnutrition by 500 million, and improving the global response to epidemics.

Poverty campaigners reacted with cautious optimism to the news.

The participant countries – Germany, Britain, the US, Canada, Japan and Italy – would work on initiatives to combat disease and help countries around the world react to world epidemics, including a fund within the World Bank dedicated to tackling health emergencies, Merkel announced at a press conference after the summit formally ended on Monday afternoon.

Out of whose hide do you suppose all that will come?

The rich will, of course, continue to do just fine while the G7's 99 % get crushed.

This is the real pensee unique.

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