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Originally Posted by CandleInTheDark
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Regulations are slow to change, slow to react to new science and technology, cumbersome, and expensive. They are scarecly better than doing nothing at all.
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Recent experiences just dont support your conclusion.
Again, the regs of the 70s would suggest otherwise. Within 10 years of implementation, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Toxic Materials Control Act, etc. resulted in significant improvement in the deteriorating quality of our air/land/water....far more than if it had been left to doing nothing.
And at the same time, those regs stimulated innovative business practices and solutions to meet the new standards that probably would not have occurred as quickly.
There is no reason to believe that similar results would not be likely if we were to take strong regulatory action to limit greenhouse gas emissions.