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From: "Don Libby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:33 PM
Subject: [Global Change: 1823] Re: The Secret Campaign of President Bush's
Administration To Deny Global Warming
>
>>>>
>>>> It is the American way of life which is destroying the planet. Are
>>>> there
>>>> any Americans, Australians, or Europeans who are willing to admit that
>>>> their
>>>> way of life will have to change for the worse?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Substituting low carbon fuels for high carbon fuels does not strike me
>>> as
>>> a
>>> change for the worse. To the contrary, human health would improve as a
>>> direct result of reduced emissions from coal combustion.
>>>
>>> -dl
>>
>> There aren't enough nuclear fuels to provide for the US's prodigal
>> runaway
>> expansion of the use of the world's limited resources. How
>> is that going to stop the world being destroyed?
>>
>> Zeke, You are an economist. Do you hear what I am saying?
>>
>
> There is plenty of nuclear fuel to attain the expansion of nuclear power
> production indicated in the IPCC stabilization scenarios. Combine that
> reduction in coal-fired electric power production with improved energy
> efficiency and stabilization may be achieved without substantially lower
> living standards. That will presumably avoid whatever additional
> destruction would result from failing to stabilize. It's worth a try,
> don't you think?
Yes, try it. But then you can't, because the people won't let you :-(
And it is no use blaming the greenies for that problem. No one
listens to them. It is the people who are blocking the building of new
nuclear power stations. Where ever they could be sited is sure to be
next to someone's back yard. No one wants the possibility of a
Three Mile Island or a Cherynobl next door to them. The idea
of a nuclear solution is an Impossible Dream!
Moreover, there may be enough nuclear fuel still available to keep
the American Dream alive, but what about Europe, China and India?
If Americans insist on becoming richer, because that is the American
Way of Life, do you really think that the rest of the world will take
a stoical approach and not try to emulate them?
But what I am arguing is even more radical than that. You are hoping
that energy efficiency will also help to solve the problem, but it is also
a non-runner. If you buy an economy motor, what do you spend your
fuel savings on? Taking longer trips, driving a jet ski or mountain bike,
or maybe just a motorized lawn mower. Your savings would come to
more than that? Well perhaps a flight to Hawaii or Mexico for the
family vacation, or even improving your green credentials by flying to
Chile so you can join a cruise liner to Antarctica. Whatever it is, it will
mean more CO2 being blasted into the atmosphere.
The only answer is to cut consumption until we can get the global
population down to a sustainable level. If we don't, then God or
Gaia will cut the population down for us without our cooperation :-(
Cheers, Alastair.
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> -dl
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