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From: "CobblyWorlds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change
To: "globalchange" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:53 AM
Subject: [Global Change: 1928] Re: Is a 2 degree target realistic?
>
> Before we even get to the issue of persuading the Chinese and Indian
> populations (together with millions elswhere) that they need to stop
> aspiring to the sort of carbon intensive energy wasteful lives we in
> the "developed" world currently live. We need to persuade people in
> countries like the UK that we need to change the way we live.
Why "change the way we live" rather than "change the amount of coal we
burn"? To start by saying we must do something as difficult or impossible
as "change the way we live" will delay progress even longer, so let's start
by saying we must do something relatively easy: "tax coal".
Do you think it will be easier or faster to persuade people to change the
way they live, or to persuade people to build new nuclear power stations
rather than new coal stations? Similarly, will it be easier or faster to
persuade India or China to build no new power stations than to build new
nuclear stations instead of new coal stations?
>
> century. Furthermore in terms of EROEI surely coal is the cheapest bet
> for an alternative base energy supply as gas/oil deplete.
That is why we must change the price of coal: vote to raise a carbon
emission tax and reinvest revenues in low-emission alternatives or CO2
sequestration facilities.
-dl
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