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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm pretty comfortable with the science proving the world isn't flat if that makes you feel better! 
I think there's a huge difference between scaring the living turd out of people and taking the focus away from every single other issue plaguing our planet and say ... working towards logical and effecient methods to protect the environment and not damage economies.
The way you set this up I need to prove global science isn't real and prove economies aren't being damaged, that's a tall order. You don't like the burden of proof on the pro side, but you're happy to make the other side prove the economic impacts?
Can't we assume a little of both are true, heck even a lot of both are true and then find some sort of compromise that makes sense gonig forward?
I'm a huge fan of incentives for man kind to move forward in place of threats and scare tactics.
And to reiterate again, as to say anything but you support global warming science completely inevitably ends with being called pro pollution or pro industry -- I'm not saying this isn't real. But I've read and seen enough to convince me it's being pushed a little harder than the proof should dictate and I have serious concerns over the complete waste that this movement may create.
It would be a real shame to see billions and billions thrown into projects that do little for an issue that turned out to be a long term trend when fractions of these investments could have rid the planet of a boat load of tangilble problems. |
Well I wish all the "other side" were as reasonable as you then, because that seems damn reasonable.
You're right we shouldn't trip over our own feet to save ourselves. For example, I've heard that if we were to replace all of our oil with cleaner ethanol, humans would not have any space left to grow crops for food. Plus it might be nice to have some oxygen. So I know there's folly on both sides.
I guess I just feel that if momentum isn't on the climate change side, it will stall outright and then like those other problems (aids, Darfur, famine etc) will just be added to the list stuff we really do nothing about.