Thanks to marginalrevolution.com for this from Bloomberg.
“European Union carbon-dioxide allowances for delivery in December 2010 declined 8.3 percent to close at 12.45 euros ($17.82) on the European Climate Exchange in London. Today was the first day of trading since the summit concluded Dec. 19.
“It would be foolish to be anything other than dispirited by the outcome” of the Copenhagen meeting, the International Emissions Trading Association said today in an e-mailed statement. The climate talks were a “step backward” in terms of signals that will support carbon prices, Henry Derwent, president of the Geneva-based group, said in the statement.”
The carbon-trading trade (trading vapours and/or the rights to name leprechauns) is a bellwether of the Global Warming scam. This is where people make money trading illusions. If this market collapses, it is a sign that Climate Change will collapse because governments have stopped legislating the treatment of Hobbits. Y2K again, I hope.
If governments knew what they were doing, they wouldn’t be doing most of the things they do.
from the book: Shadow Dancing on the Grave of Hope:
More on Criminal Rehabilitation
READING FROM THE BOOK OF RIGHT
1. Motivation, the situation in which the person does what the program requires, is not something which the client acquires in a flash of insight, it is something created by the program.
2. Social class is the result of criminality, not its cause. Most criminals are poor, because a life of crime does not support the accumulation of wealth, increased training and education, career advancement, and the other behaviors required for a successful life and career.
3. Deep and lengthy psychotherapy, which gets at “the real causes of crime”, does not decrease criminal behavior. As usual, the popular method does not work and sometimes makes things worse. The least harm it does is to “crowd out” useful programs.
4. Everything we know about any kind of behavior change is applicable to criminals. Offenders must follow the same principles as other humans. Criminals are not made of different stuff nor are they from another planet.
5. All of the things that influence a criminal toward criminal behavior must be changed. This almost always includes dramatically changing the environment by having the discharged criminal change it, usually by moving to a better one.
6. There are offenders who are younger, of different gender, of different races and nationalities, but the same principles apply to their effective rehabilitation. In terms of point 4, the principles work for everyone. Programs using elements which work for males will work for females, juveniles and members of all minorities.
7. Self-esteem, contrary to the popular media, is not the key to anything. Self-esteem improvement is irrelevant to decreasing criminality. Many criminals are arrogant in the extreme and their self-esteem is high and out of all proportion to their accomplishments. Well-grounded confidence comes from competence, not the other way around.
8. Criminality is not a result of mental illness. Criminals are as likely to suffer from “mental illness” as non-criminals. The same variables which predict criminality in the “mentally ill” are the same as those which predict criminality in those without that label.
Cheerio and ttfn,
Grant Coulson
