13:43:02 From  Richard van der Jagt, MD  to  Everyone:
	a lot of the short term thinking could disappear by getting bipartisan committees to work together on issues of national interest

13:47:07 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	Tax bad not goods.

13:47:37 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	That is: Tax bads not goods.

13:48:02 From  Richard van der Jagt, MD  to  Everyone:
	how do you tax services that require a lot of training and high IQ?

13:55:32 From  Ted  Manning  to  Everyone:
	Note that the sensitivity to increased taxes is much less than many realize, particularly in much of the world which has no real tax collection system and little probability of collection. Much of the world has little policing capacity (except via the use of incentives or more frequently bribes.

13:57:32 From  Richard van der Jagt, MD  to  Everyone:
	Has anyone read Homo Deus. which discusses the use of AI in the workplace? However, someone has to build and maintain those robots

13:57:50 From  Jon Legg  to  Everyone:
	(Comment) I think that the Econ. & Social Council is much less imp't than the Security Council, so that the two relative powers should NOT be changed. Regarding the 2nd recommendation, changing short time frames to longer ones, e.g. 30 years, is NOT a good idea, if applied to things like the IPCC. A longer time frame would do away with the "nagging function"; not a good idea.

13:58:52 From  Steven B Kurtz  to  Everyone:
	I’m for declining population ASAP!

13:59:45 From  Richard van der Jagt, MD  to  Everyone:
	our birthrate has been dropping for years due to environmental toxins in many countries

14:00:23 From  Lalith Gunaratne  to  Everyone:
	https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545397/empty-planet-by-darrell-bricker-and-john-ibbitson
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14:00:38 From  Lalith Gunaratne  to  Everyone:
	Book Empty Planet see link above..

14:01:02 From  Lalith Gunaratne  to  Everyone:
	https://www.cbc.ca/books/empty-planet-by-darrell-bricker-john-ibbitson-1.5026796

14:01:08 From  Lalith Gunaratne  to  Everyone:
	CBC article above

14:04:43 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	?  Have you considered taxing advertising, or at least limiting tax credits for advertising?

14:04:58 From  Richard van der Jagt, MD  to  Everyone:
	According to the worldbank data, Canada has a birthrate of 1.4  live births per woman

14:17:49 From  Richard van der Jagt, MD  to  Everyone:
	before this idea takes off, you have to get rid of the influence of lobbyists like CROPLIFE

14:19:58 From  David Harries  Canada  to  Everyone:
	Comments before necessary departure: 1) in these times  of accelerating pace of change, 30 years is definitely Long-term 2) the most 'primary' material is WATER 3) India is about to have the highest national population, because of the 'combination' of two 'negatives'; falling death-rate ("silver tsunami") and falling birth rate. the former is falling faster than the latter, thus the overall increase. >>>many consequences, not all positive.

14:24:05 From  Nigel Weir  to  Everyone:
	i have a comment re. a medium term view

14:25:24 From  Claude Buettner  to  Everyone:
	Regarding forests and the glimmer of hope that they could be instrumental in helping cool the Earth by bringing latent heat from water vapor above most of the CO2 blanket by high altitude cloud formation, here is an excellent though longish presentation posted by Biotic Regulation: https://youtu.be/Z-92A55BdVc?t=193

14:29:29 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	Taxing based on the number of employees or profit per employee might seem like a good idea, but it's a hornet's nest of problems.  Profit per employee is highly dependant on the industry and the vertical integration state of the company in question.

14:30:16 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	Advertising is what funds "independent" media.  

14:30:47 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	I'm concerned that reducing the sources of advertising will reduce access to what is already a very poor "independent" media.

14:34:17 From  Mary Hegan  to  Everyone:
	comment for Derek re incentives (human health as well as more money) for superproductive forests, "natural" wealth" etc. Mary

14:35:44 From  Claude Buettner  to  Everyone:
	Derek's book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Leap-Ecological-Economy-Derek-Paul/dp/148085171X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3RRMNTFM592P4&keywords=A+leap+to+an+Ecological+Economy&qid=1675884898&s=books&sprefix=a+leap+to+an+ecological+economy%2Cstripbooks%2C93&sr=1-1

14:36:22 From  John Hollins  to  Everyone:
	Mark Jaccard, energy economist at Simon Fraser U, in his book The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success makes the same argument as Robert Hoffman

14:37:32 From  Claude Buettner  to  Everyone:
	The book is also available on iPhone's Books.

14:44:08 From  Claude Buettner  to  Everyone:
	An excellent book on Transforming the UN with weighted voting: https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-United-Nations-System-Workable/dp/9280812300/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=transforming+the+united+nations+system+schwartzberg&qid=1675885314&sr=8-1-fkmr0

15:00:48 From  Hector E. Garcia  to  Everyone:
	Jon Legg's observations on assigning more importance to Econ Council than to Security Council seem highly relevant to the reasons behind our inability to reduce humanity's existential risks. I would add that it is due primarily to the status quo mindset, which is focused on wealth, power and STEM. Your example of student project to envision 2050 is very much on target. I suggest that Joel Barker, author of book "PARADIGMS" would be helpful in this respect. He developed a method to elicit future visions from people reluctant to see.

15:02:07 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	@John, the price elasticity for gas is low in the short term, but very high on the long term.

15:02:55 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	The oil industry wants everyone to think carbon taxes won't work.  We have plenty of evidence that they do.

15:05:15 From  Hector E. Garcia  to  Everyone:
	Thanks, Derek.

15:25:10 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
	       Economist, John Maynard Keynes

15:27:17 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	The Devil hates laughter.

15:33:45 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	@Jon, it would be great to use the same solution to providing lighting for study at night which would allow girls to study more

15:35:33 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	@Steven, the problem is that it's the rich people who are talking ever bigger slices of the pie and that is causing climate change.  We need to act here in the west before we impose anything on anyone else.