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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (72124)6/14/2008 11:24:58 AM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (3) of 542598
 
Bob;

An economic train wreck is not a solution. The world has huge problems and limited resources.

You look at GW as an economic train wreck - but some see it as an economic boom. There is little doubt that some countries already are cashing in; Brazil with it's ethanol and some countries in Europe with solar and wind. We can participate in that boom or we can continue to suck onto a "limited resource".

All resources are not limited as you suggest. Wind and solar are unlimited resources. Tidal and geothermal are too. What the right seems to miss in the GW issue is that the mushrooming economic advances in parts of the world - think China, Indonesia and India - are placing huge pressures on the "limited resources". The only train wreck coming is if we fail to understand the pressures the rest of the world is having on "limited resources" and we fail to adapt. Adapt we must - you think of it as an economic train wreck, but building better more efficient homes, better more efficient cars and more efficient tools and appliances is an almost unlimited boom just waiting for those with the foresight to see the opportunity. All of these opportunities not only could lesson our independence on oil, but improve our lives and maybe as a huge side benefit could also contribute to GW solutions.

steve
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