Will Obama stop the high levels of immigration ?
from the article:
The findings of this study indicate that future levels of immigration will have a significant impact on efforts to reduce global CO2 emissions. Immigration to the United States significantly increases world-wide CO2 emissions because it transfers population from lower-polluting parts of the world to the United States, which is a higher-polluting country. On average immigrants increase their emissions four-fold by coming to America.
http://www.cis.org/GreenhouseGasEmissions
Among the findings:
- The estimated CO2 emissions of the average immigrant (legal or illegal) in the United States are 18 percent less than those of the average native-born American.
- However, immigrants in the United States produce an estimated four times more CO2 in the United States as they would have in their countries of origin.
...and the list goes on...
Assuming no change in U.S. immigration policy, 30 million new legal and illegal immigrants are expected to settle in the United States in the next 20 years.
Is the latest Obama tariff plan aimed at China?
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2...ack-from-asia/
from the article:
such a tariff, based on $45 a tonne of carbon dioxide and equivalent - about the current price on the carbon trading market in Europe - would collect $55-billion annually. It equates to a 17-per cent levy on all Chinese imports to the U.S. - almost six times greater than current import tariffs.
...ok so manufacturers come back to north america, then what happens to GHG emmission levels?
Tarriffs on countries with higher GHG Emissions?
