On 19 March 2015 at 18:47, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/18/2015 8:36 PM, LizR wrote: > >> ...but if this happens it shows what you can accomplish if you don't have >> to mess around with any pesky democratic processes... >> >> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-18/china- >> increases-solar-target-for-2015-as-it-fights-air-pollution >> > > Of course setting a target and hitting it are two different things. They > don't have to mess around with the U.S. pesky plutocratic process, but they > have to deal with the corrupt despotic ruling party. >
Yup. No one said they were perfect. But since so far the west/democracy/free market/etc have failed spectacularly on this front, it will be interesting to see how well those damn chinese manage. > >> I just hope the USA decides that this constitutes a challenge (it could >> be called the Warm War, perhaps) "By the end of the decade, we will have >> gone 100% to solar power AND sucked all the excess CO2 from the atmosphere!" >> > > One can hope. > > Yes, it seems to be all that's available for us at the moment. > >> (Of course the last president to make that sort of promise promptly got >> assassinated.) >> > > But we did go to the Moon. > Thanks for clarifying that Brent, I'd have hated for anyone stupid to have missed my point. -- 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.
