Keith Nagel wrote:
Jed writes: >Mark Mills is a consummate idiot.
Be fair; he's not an idiot, just a shill for the nuclear industry.
Is he? A few years ago he was shilling for the coal industry at the Greening Earth Society. That organization, paid for by the coal industry, is *in favor of* global warming. At least they are honest! They agree that coal is causing global warming, but they claim global warming will benefit mankind. (Except for places such as Florida, New York City or Bangladesh I suppose, but the Greening Earth people are not detail-oriented; they look at the big picture.)
It is as if the tobacco companies were to advertise themselves as a potent solution to the Social Security funding problem -- which, in fact, they are. If enough people begin smoking again the Social Security fund will not run short in 2040 or anytime this century, because people will die off more quickly.
Not to get off topic, you could accomplish the same thing by raising the retirement age 2 years now, and 5 years by 2040. That strikes me as the obvious solution. People are living longer and they are healthier, so why shouldn't they work? Most of the elderly people I know are electrochemists and farmers, and they all would prefer work until they day they drop dead anyway. They will work just as hard for free, or at a loss.
- Jed
