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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (22867)7/5/2006 10:55:14 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 541332
 
"We" can't come up with something feasible and enact it without political mobilization.

Don't disagree. What I said was "the political mobilization you have in mind." Which is scaring the shit out of people while leaving them to infer that the only way out is for the world to give up transportation and production because that's all they ever hear about in terms of proposed legislation and treaties.

We also disagree as to how those "solutions" are likely to arrive on the scene.

Yes, we do.

You seem to think it will emerge out of the heads of engineers and simply be enacted.

If some engineer came up with some solution that required enactment of anything, I'm confident it would pretty much simply be enacted, yes. What requires enactment is the facilitation of those engineers coming up with things.

I'll bet that if Gore promised to quit harping about hockey sticks in exchange for legislation to fund or incentivize development of alternative technologies it would be passed expeditiously. <g>

I do think that cutting greenhouse gasses is mostly technology and that is mostly about scientists engineers, not politicians.

The role of politicians in this is in the area of adaption, for examples, constitution and treaty changes regarding displaced persons, changes in insurance laws, and the like to deal with times when some places on earth become less habitable and other places more habitable.
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