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After the sinks comes the drain

Once we blow through the carbon sinks, it's down the drain for us

Posted by JMG (Guest Contributor) at 1:20 PM on 18 May 2007

Another sign that the economists' central myth, their creation story in a sense -- that there is a replacement for anything scarce and the replacement appears whenever the price of the depeleting resource gets high enough -- is the most dangerous fantasy in the world:

Alas, there are no replacement carbon sinks, and we seemed to have filled ours up. Now we learn that, after you're through in the sinks, you head down the drain.

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