You are mixing the issue of pollution with the issue of carbon emissions and global warming. You might believe that they are the same thing, but that is not established scientific fact.
Aside from that, I don't have a problem with being "green". I like clean air and clean water and I believe in doing what we can to keep our environment healthy. But I also believe that we have to be realistic in what we can accomplish. Simply mandating, a la Kyoto, that we reduce carbon emissions to some arbitrary level is a knee-jerk political substitute for real analysis about what we can and should do. My favorite solution, and the one that is both economically viable and would reduce carbon emissions by the greatest extent, is to build more nuclear power plants. But nuclear power has been so successfully demonized by the idiot Environmentalists that we can't even have a rational debate about it. And once again, this all really is a bit academic in my mind when it comes to global warming and cooling, because I know (because it is a matter of historical record, not conjecture) that the Earth warms and cools in cycles, as it has done for millions of years, as it will continue to do for millions of years. So when we talk about the very narrow specific issue of whether carbon dioxide emissions will significantly change the temperature of the Earth compared to other factors (all of which are totally outside our control), I call bullshit on Al Gore and his band of merry hucksters. On 10/23/07, Scott wrote: > > So is your point that because we don't know empirically whether or not > we're > having an effect on global warming, that we should just continue to dump > pollutants into the environment, without any concern for the effects that > they do have? I think common sense would dictate otherwise. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244932 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
