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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (6965)	7/11/2006 5:19:47 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

So now the argument is that even a person who agrees that GW is a problem, if he facilitates a mature analysis that determines it is not the most pressing problem with the greatest potential for good he is a heretic that must be drummed out. IMHO the claim that AIDS is not a serious problem is akin to the argument that Democrats make that Iraqi lives are not worth saving. It is hubris of the highest order. Even if there were man caused GW and it were going to cause 20 feet of water level rise in a century (which is the most alarmist claim with any credibility) is it likely to cause the same kind of devastation as the Third World AIDS epidemic? Expect no argument that oil depletion is a problem from me. An example of our current stupid policy is related to one of the things that got Saddam upset with Kuwait. Kuwait was drilling close to the border and Iraq claimed it depleted their reserves. The US will not allow oil exploration off Florida; so Cuba is getting platforms North of Cuba. We need direction on sustainable renewable energy. Space based solar platforms microwaving the energy to ground collectors could provide massive first world energy and the third world could tag along. Geothermal, wind, solar, biomass, bio... and conservation are all important. "One of the problem with Lomborg’s piece is that it, like the economists it praises, breaks everything down into different parts, so that climate change prevention is seen a separate from access to water and economic development." This was the point of his research. If you put the highest priority on every problem, you have excess demand on limited resources. Some people do not know what a luxury is, and current environmental extremists fall into this category. One has to allocate limited resources.