It boils down tothe corporate bottom line. Look at the oil sands in Alberta for instance. Its now profitable for PetroCan and the other oil companies involved to use the most global warming intensive methods to crack the oil out of the tar sands. Figure a way to get the oil out of the ground with fewer environmental costs, reduce oil consumption, or at least make it too expensive to get oil out of the ground using current methods and that solves the problem.
Its a classic behavioral trap, there are too many short term positive consequences to overcome the long term negative ones. On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Meh, you can say it if you want. Doesn't bug me much. I know where I'm at. > > Oil companies is just kind of my catch all for evil doers. Just joking, but > kind of not really. I just don't really understand people that don't want to > err on the side of caution. "Drive an hummer and skull f**k mother nature! > Woooooo Hoooooo" mentality punches my sense of self preservation in the > nuts. I'm just paraphrasing, but to me it's pretty much the same as "here's > why global warming is a myth." > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> "Jerry. I get more and more confused by you." >> >> Good. I hate to be predictable. >> >> >> "What horse do you have in this race to try to "disprove" (very BIG quotes >> around that) climate change?" >> >> Climate does change. All the time. Global warming obviously followed the >> ices ages we have had. Global cooling obviously preceded the ices ages we >> have had. >> >> My only horse, if I can call it that, would be discrediting people like >> Ellen Goodman, who said, "Let's just say that global warming deniers are >> now >> on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other >> denies the present and future." A ridiculous claim since the periods of >> global warming and global cooling are more likely natural phenomenon than >> man made. >> >> Of course, I am not like Ellen and her like. I am more than willing to >> leave the debate open. >> >> >> "Are you just a troll or are oil companies giving you a serious reach >> around?" >> >> Trolling is in the eye of the beholder. To me, a troll is a hit and run >> poster. They post something controversial and then leave. I don't do >> that. >> >> Oil companies? That sort came out of the blue. Oil companies don't have >> enough time to mess around with a small fish like me. BP and the like are >> too busy buying politicians like Barack Obama. >> >> As far as reach arounds, I would dare say that you know far more about that >> subject than me. >> >> >> J >> >> - >> >> No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in >> session. - Mark Twain >> >> The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and >> provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. - Thomas Jefferson >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327146 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
