Sardauk said:
TheRealMafoo said:
Sardauk said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Even though Sardauk is flamebaiting all over the place, I still find it refreshing for some reason. Whether you believe in Global Warming or not, you have to agree that rampant releases of carbon dioxide and pollutants aren't going to do any good for the earth. If fear of Global Warming results in a cleaner earth, I couldn't give less of a shit whether any of it was true or not. |
I'm flaming for my own personnal mental health.... I can't believe they are still deploying more energy to protect an old-fashion way of life rather than start improving their mentality...
USA should already have done something like 15 years ago... and we are still arguing on this !
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The problem is if all we are doing is releasing .0001% of the CO2 that it takes to actually effect global warming, then what we are doing today is going to do more harm to people then less. Most of that harm, is going to happen to the poor.
Are you for sacrificing the poor to make a change that might not be needed for 500 years? Or, might not ever be needed.
At some point, through science, we are going to come up with a better source for energy then coal and gas. It might be 10 years down the road, it might be 200. If that time was going to come before we got to the point where releasing CO2 has any impact, then doing something to stop it now is not only pointless, but far worse then doing nothing at all.
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Nuclear cold fusion ? In 10 it might be too late, in 200 we won't be there anymore..
No it won't, not like that. Money and investment go were the economy requires them to go. Fossil fuels are still to cheap to really motivate the economy to do something about, without constraints of taxes and climate change.
Back in the seventies, during the first petrol crisis, governements (US included) had started some initatives to become less dependent of oil.
Those initative were ruined by the decision of the producing countries to severly lower their price so that the world economy would be addicted to it....
Now we are talking about the return of coal... this is madness...
And I don't believe any second that we are only responsible for .0000001% of the total emission... come on... 
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10 year? yea right.
And I didn't say we are only responsible for for .0001% of emissions (I think the closest guess is about 3%). I said what if we need to release a thousand times more before it makes an impact. What if CO2 levels rose 10 fold. Would the earth heat up because of it at any measurable level?
We don't know. Maybe we should find that out before we spend trillions of dollars that everyone (including the poor) are going to have to pay equally.
