Talk:Towards a low carbon economy

(copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Low-carbon_economy in case it gets deleted):

Low carbon economies and economic efficiency
The statement "A low-carbon economy is not as economically efficient (cost-effective) as a high-carbon economy." in the introduction seems contentious. Is it not referring to a cost-effective evaluation which may not take full account of environmental costs (to both present and future generations) and benefits in terms of wellbeing or happinness? Would it be a fair comparison anyway? Is it being suggested that there is somewhere an actual low carbon economy that has progressed beyond the emergent stage which can be assessed? Philralph 08:25, 8 August 2007 (UTC)