The strength of the carbon it is measured

Haro on GDP. Unanimity seems to prevail to denounce the inadequacy of what was, in the last century, the Supreme indicator of wealth and the progress of nations. Because it does not account of social inequality, ecological footprint, the exhaustion of resources, the degradation of the planet.

The questioning is not new and alternative efforts abound. The United Nations has developed and popularized the human development indicator, or HDI, which takes into account the inequalities of income and heritage, poverty, education, health, life expectancy. But have a battery of 100 indicators, it is also having none.

Everything which is measured improves. GDP is not yet dead: If one denounced his dictatorship, is that it has assets. At the time when it seeks to bury him living, it is useful to recall how he emerged after the crisis of 1929. Until the great depression, there was only sparse and incomplete economic activity measures: a yard of million tonnes of coal and steel, quintals of wheat, shipments of cars, quotes. The production of machine tools was in kilograms or adequate extent of their use value...

A good indicator must be legitimate in the eyes of scientists and citizens. But the unique flag induced thinking. Focused on "industrialization consumerism", the Soviet Union, for example, seriously deteriorated the environment.

And now We are clearly in the century of carbon. The scientific truth of the impact on climate change from greenhouse gas emissions is an obsolete debate. The carbon arises as the founding myth of the 21st century then that billions of citizens of the world gather behind this belief. On the question of the scientific evidence of the divine nature of Jesus Christ

The environment does not simple numbers and equations. The strength of the carbon, it is measured. All human activity is now evaluates by its carbon footprint. Bangladesh to 5th Avenue, the question now is: how many grams of carbon you issued today Carbon, it is also the expression of solidarity between the geographical areas of the globe, because the atmosphere is unique and shared.

The choice of a flag responds to a crisis, to the problem sought to resolve. The great depression, it was mass unemployment and major macroeconomic aggregates. It is played without end about what was needed because it lacked appropriate quantified indicators. Today, the problem, it is sustainable development.

This powerful notion the growth of today which does not sacrifice the generations future has taken shape in UN circles. It is imposed as the motto of world governance, taking the place of Third Worldism.

This concept addresses intrinsic failure of economic analysis; the discount rate clears any value whose maturity is beyond several decades. However, humanity will still exist in the next century. The idea of the negotiators of the Kyoto Protocol has been to encourage the creation of a market for carbon credits. Is this not the genius of capitalism to create value out of nothing, just by the price fixing mechanism Therefore, a company, a Bank, a country can negotiate, store, speculate, register on their balance sheet a financial value.

In practice, the carbon emissions cap will install a new ecological tax administration Obama will need to fill the hole of the crisis: but the word tax would have been a foil.

Sustainable development is also a reconciliation of the economy and ecology, that any objection. The protection of the environment is no longer the monopoly of the Greens since the conservative parties and the industrial world have converted. The Keynesian revolution, after the great depression, reconciliation the economic and social conflict which had torn the first half of the 20th century.