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...scale cap and trade is the best way to quickly reduce emissions. But we must be careful that the framework of any cap-and-trade scheme does not unfairly exonerate the responsibilities certain groups should have to face. More importantly, a cap-and-trade scheme must strengthen rather than harm communal obligation and aspiration...
...It’s difficult to see greenhouse-gas emissions as sins, especially since they are beneficial to the environment under a certain level. Still, Father Mayer’s overall point about escaping direct responsibility for actions that cause collective harm (even if they also bring common benefits) is an important one. His concern is most relevant in considering the distribution of international burdens...
...Tenenbaum case, Nesson made it clear that he would launch a constitutional attack on the so-called “Digital Theft Deterrence Act,” which mandates damages of up to $150,000 for willful copyright infractions. Such a scale for damages was disproportionate to any harm committed, the team suggested, putting it in violation of the constitutional provision against “cruel and unusual” punishment and potentially “slamming the courthouse door” on those too cowed by the financial burden to consider risking further expenses by fighting the case...
...listing the polar bear as threatened by global warming would appear to require Washington to control carbon emissions. Some green groups even thought the ESA could be used to fight new coal plants and other big emitters of greenhouse gases, on the grounds that they would accelerate warming and harm the polar bear. (See Germany's latest polar bear celebrity...
...swine flu were really serious about being viral, it would find a way to transmit through Facebook, Twitter or Myspace. But being that it's not a sentient being and has actually done some serious harm (death, panic, a drop in bacon sales), maybe a more appropriate way to joke about the topic is via an online game that has spread across the Internet with pandemic-like speed over the past few days...