I don't think it's a matter of senses so much as interests. He's not interested in what's real as long as he can generate enough doubt to allow himself to avoid the overwhelmingly likely truth. By the time he comes to his senses, even if he does, it's likely to be too late.
Will we overcome the problems of Global Warming?
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And not so long as he is being fed by the oil companies methinks.
Cathbad
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That should push up property values there.
And guess who owns property there?
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We will probably be reduced to cannibalism before then. I expect food production to be a serious problem before we get a 6 foot rise in sea level. Pictures of New York under 20 feet of water just look cool.
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New York City under water could adversely affect property values.
Cannibalism is unlikely, they will find some easy to talor food production to the shifting climate.
Cathbad
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Yeah, because the new administration is sooo interested in this cause!
What will putting us 8 more years behind schedule do to us here in the US?
Rice? Seaweed?
NB. This was meant as dark humour and not as any serious suggestion about future agricultural policy.
HanaBi
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Is there such a thing? I always thought the powers-that-be created a policy purely to ignore it.
AWe're not the only ones with an excessive green house gas emissions problem. Us doing it alone won't really make a dent in it.
Cathbad
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AWe're not the only ones with an excessive green house gas emissions problem. Us doing it alone won't really make a dent in it.
Yeah, we really could. We're #1 in that department.
Cathbad
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With China India, Indonesia and Brazil not far behind.
I didn't realize India was up there.
I didn't realize India was up there.
Im not sure what India's emissions are but given the fact that they got 1.5 billion people and given that they like China are rapidly industrializing , I wouldn't be surprised if they they near the US emission levels.
So, freely give them the renewable energy technology that we've already developed and allow them to industrialise without the intermediate stage that the industrialised world got so badly wrong.
...but,
If the USA is an elite country, the leader of the free world, a country that other countries should aspire to be like, then should it not set an example for them to follow. Or, should it continue with the same mantra...
...but,
- the USA won't have that technology to give because you don't believe in it, and so wouldn't have developed it.
- if you did, it would give them an unfair commercial advantage because you would now be so far behind yourselves.
- it suits some people to keep the imbalances present in the world exactly as they are now.
- it is all a conspiracy anyway, to make America poor. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist folks!
If the USA is an elite country, the leader of the free world, a country that other countries should aspire to be like, then should it not set an example for them to follow. Or, should it continue with the same mantra...
If everyone said that, no one would ever do anything about climate change. Excusing inaction on the basis that "we're not the only ones and us changing alone would make no difference" is never a valid excuse. Europe is a smaller green house gas producer than the states but we're still at least trying to do something.AWe're not the only ones with an excessive green house gas emissions problem. Us doing it alone won't really make a dent in it.
Im not sure what India's emissions are but given the fact that they got 1.5 billion people and given that they like China are rapidly industrializing , I wouldn't be surprised if they they near the US emission levels.
There you go Eeyore
India plans nearly 60% of electricity capacity from non-fossil fuels by 2027
They are doing something about it.
Now I don't know if they will succeed, nor if their attempt to commercialise thorium as a nuclear reactor fuel will work, but it's at least in the right direction.
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