Mike Carrell wrote:
Here, unfortunately is the invitation to the greatest of all risks, the
demand for perfect safety, a utopia, the mountain peak whose slippery slopes
lead to a variety of dictatorships [take your choice].
Shall there be a Green Emperor who will dictate public and private policy
and send us all back to the 1800s, with one billion world population?
Of course not, and no one here has suggested such a thing. This is indeed a
"slippery slope," but it is the logical fallacy of that name. That is, it
is taking the opponent's argument to a ridiculous and uncalled for extreme.
See:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
We can address the problem without taking such drastic steps.
Are the environmentalist movement leaders free of the lust for power while
excoriating the "oil barons"?
Some may be but we are not.
If the climate models still cannot accurately model clouds *and their
formation* . . .
I doubt the models are as bad as this. I am sure they can model clouds to
some extent.
India and China are on track to follow the developed nations in fuel usage.
How will Nick exert control over those countries?
No one needs to exert control over them to solve this problem. What we need
to do is to invent new technology that solves the problem, and then sell it
to them. This is already happening on a small scale. Wind power is growing
rapidly in India.
- Jed
