>>>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/8165769/Cancun-climate-change-summit-scientists-call-for-rationing-in-developed-world.html
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>>>>>What's next, Overpopulation and rationing (what's next? sterilization?) Reminds me of a book I read....
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>>>>What's next is, direct cash transfers: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Cooling+climate+change+Environmental+inaction+seems+taking+hold/3892945/story.html
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>>>Sounds an awful lot like the transaction based taxes that are in a bill going to the house here...
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>>In the climate change business, the dollar values are so large that there is literally no limit to the schemes people will think up to try to legitimize wealth transfer e.g.
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>>http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/backs+Ecuador+Amazon+proposal/3588374/story.html
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>So, blackmail still pays... I guess 26 million dollars in USAID alone last year wasn't enough....
>http://www.usaid.gov/locations/latin_america_caribbean/country/ecuador/
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>that doesn't even count the other dollars that went to Ecuador from the U.S. last year or aid from other countries.

It's perhaps unfair to pick on Ecuador, I have little doubt that every non-first world nation is dreaming those same dreams. That particular article stuck in my memory because the scheme apparently has received enthusiastic, wholehearted UN approval - which raises red alerts with me.