Re: Re: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
M A Jones wrote: Unfortunately Rod does not understand what Yoshie is saying. It is simply wrong to say "the problem is with the social system not with the technical feasibility." The problem is precisely with technical feasibility and it is mystification to argue anything else. Then do

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Carrol, you keep asking what to do, I'd suggest superglue, go to a power station in a state of elation, stick yourself to a chimney, then we'll see, if it's a nuke you stay till you're blue, if it's coal you stay till your ole, if you wanne be eco n' even more ego, tape yourself to a windmill,

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Ken Hanly
Well if you can't beat them, I guess the next best thing is to become a Marxist Jeremiah. By the way if socialists should get their skates on, as Mark Jones proclaims ex cathedra, won't they be skating on thin ice given global warming? Actually the results of global warming are imaginable.