On 20 March 2014 07:10, <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's an article that informs me, if nobody else, how complicated the > climate thing is. > > http://phys.org/news/2014-03-goldilocks-principle-hypothesis-earth-habitability.html > > Beyond that I agree with John on his estimate of cutting the standard of > living down, to fit the ideal "environmental foot print." Improving the > standard of living with better energy technology will sustain the billions > and flourish the ecosystem-if done right. Technology is the answer, sans, > government rule of the public. Dictatorships, even well-meaning ones, are > horrible. Use Mao's approach to agricultural production during the Great > Leap Forward from 1958-62, as a prime example. > > If that solar farm described in SciAm had been realised it would have been carried out by a democratically elected government, not a dictatorship. Part of the point of having a government is to provide things that no individual or profit-based organisation would wish to do, such as building motorways, communications networks, hospitals, schools, power plants, rail networks, and other infrastructure. This would apply to some clean power schemes that are too large for a private investor, which applies to (some) tidal, wind, hydro, solar, nuclear etc. I can't imagine many private companies would have been building nuclear power plants off their own bat in the 1950s.
So we need government to do stuff above the level that private enterprise can manage. Dictatorship is simply government done wrong. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
