At 4:58 PM -0500 17/12/08, Charles Bennett wrote:
>
>Example. If you want to actually stop whatever global warming you
>believe in, you had better believe that it will take countless dollars
>produced by and invested by companies that actually do something to
>earn them.
It will take countless dollars from somebody. Why only
private investors money I am less convinced by.
> Governments do not actually "produce" anything. They are
>parasitic to those that work and invest.
Bullshit.
Its obviously classic pure capitalist bullshit that could be
said, equally spuriously, about any economy activity whatsoever, but
to make it relevant to the claimate change -- so, equally why would
the research done by a government scientist employed by NOAA
constitute nothing of value, and only worthless parasitism ?
>All the "ecstatic compulsion to evolve" in the world will not do
>squat to ACTUALLY fund and do the heavy lifting required to make the
>changes needed. It will take men risking their fortunes and their
>companies to make it happen. Anything else is delusional.
Being a damn hippy is an ideological bias that will cause you
to value the wrong sorts of efforts towards solving the problem, I
take to be your point. Sure.
But being a one eyed capitalist fanatic is another
ideological bias that will cause you to value the wrong sorts of
efforts towards solving the problem. Less gratuitously so, but in the
long run probably just as damaging.
Cheers
David
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