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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (330230)3/28/2007 8:48:49 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1573849
 
Anything we do to clean up our act is likely to benefit the US.

That statement is false. Its possible that certain actions, even maybe certain expensive and difficult actions will in the end have a net benefit. But it isn't true that "anything we do" to reduce CO2 emissions, or more generally "to clean up our act" will have a net benefit.

As for the Cuyahoga, I'm well aware of that situation. And cleaning up that river did have a net benefit. That doesn't mean it didn't have a cost. Both the cost and the benefit have to be considered. In the case of the Cuyahoga, the cost of the actions that where done where worth it. But it isn't true that anything would have been worth it, no matter how expensive or difficult. Global warming is different than such clean up because your not just trying to eliminate toxic emissions but rather one of the main products of the various methods used to generate the vast majority of our energy. The cost is enormously higher, and the benefits less definite and clear then the Cuyahoga cleanup.
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