Trent wrote:
"I believe that climate change is true, but that America's response must
preserve the American way of life or to hell with the planet."
You're kidding right? If we go down we're taking the world with us? A
little Bond-villain-esqe don't you think? Can't compromises be
reached? The majority of Americans are willing to give up a great
portion of civil rights during times of war. We can't change our
lifestyles just a little to preserve a more stable future?
Why not nuclear power? Less people have died in nuclear accidents than
mining coal. Mining coal is more hazardous to your health than working
in a modern nuclear power plant. It doesn't produce CO2. It doesn't
produce environmental pollution other than the obvious radioactive waste
that is slated to start being stored at Yucca Mountain starting in a few
years, where it won't be a concern for tens of thousands of years. If
the human contribution to global climate change is significant and is
something that can significantly impact us within the next one or two
centuries, then why not trade the more immediate global problem for one
that is more localized and we will have a much longer time period to
solve?
Trent Shipley wrote:
I believe that climate change is true, but that America's response must
preserve the American way of life or to hell with the planet.
So the solution has to be a magic technology fix. We cannot raise the
cost of energy to solve climate change, especially not before the costs
of climate change become apparent. Even then it may be more politically
expedient to build levees than to increase the cost of energy.
As for American energy security, that means coal, not uranium.
Nick Arnett wrote:
http://open.salon.com/blog/david_brin/2010/02/09/the_real_struggle_behind_climate_change_-_a_war_on_expertise
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