It may be too late to do someting about global warming. In the early
1980s we had plenty of time to act, today we have to accept at least
2°C temperature rise and hope that will not cause big problems, but
even that will require taking drastic measures.
You don't need catastrophic effects on the environment to cause or
civilization to collapse. All that is needed is a prolonged period of
bad weather that will cause agriculture to fail in a few rich
countries. If there are problems in poor countries, you can get a local
famine, which is bad for the local population, but it isn't going to
pose a problem for the wider World. If however, agriculture fails in
India, China, Australia, and Russia, then these countries have enough
money to buy themselves out of a famine, but then that will cause
global food shortages.
Tne US will have to ban grain exports to make sure that not all of its
grain gets exported away to China, but this will trigger counter
measures eventually leading to the collapse of the World economy.
Basicaly the problem is that if Saudi Arabia can't buy grain, why would
they sell their oil?
Saibal
Citeren "Stephen P. King" <stephe...@charter.net>:
On 9/16/2012 12:43 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 16.09.2012 18:29 Stephen P. King said the following:
On 9/16/2012 8:55 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD LOOK INTO THORIUM
REACTORS BUT THERE ARE MANY DOUBTERS (CERTAINLY GREENIES AMONG
THEM) THAT THEY WOULD WORK. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
<mailto:rclo...@verizon.net> 9/16/2012 Leibniz would say, "If
there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could
function."
Hi Roger,
I agree. It is obvious that the "greenies" are just the new
incarnations of Luddites. It is amazing that they have the temerity
to wish all of us into a Stone Age existence while they sit on their
pillows of comfort and pontificate to us how we need to "save the
Earth". They just want us to accept the serfdom that they wish to
impose upon us.
If you look at Germany, you see that you are not quite right. It is
better to see this, as usually, a fight for resources between
different interest groups, in this case for example an atomic lobby
vs. a wind power lobby. Yet, it is hard to refer to the wind power
lobby as Luddites. It brings many new and interesting scientific
question with, for example look at Smart Grids.
Evgenii
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opposing sides as on an equal footing. I only care about Truth, not
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Onward!
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