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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (346924)	8/15/2007 8:26:05 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

I'm all for reforestation, biofuels, nuclear power, recycling waste heat, etc. ... but you're against every policy to implement them and against every politician who advocates them. Just a coinkydink, right? Tom

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (346924)	8/15/2007 8:52:43 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575191

"Meanwhile, we have two other nations, China and India, that are rapidly industrializing and increasing their standards of living" Yes. "How much should each American reduce his or her "carbon footprint" in order to make up for the increase in the "carbon footprint" of seven Chinese or Indian citizens?" Tench, didn't you stop using the argument "well, everyone else does it" when you were like 12? It has to start somewhere. The US has both the resources and the technology to pull it off. Sooner or later, and it will probably be sooner, both India and China will need the technology to do the same. Not necessarily to reduce global warming, but because the primitive technologies they are using now pollute so badly that it kills people. Before too much longer, they will need alternatives, and we should be the ones in the position to sell and license it to them. By then, so called "green" technologies will probably be cheaper than trying to run their current stuff cleaner. For the US, reforestation can be a big win. There already are times of the year where the CO2 content of the atmosphere drops as the air moves over the continent. It wouldn't take a whole lot to make North America carbon negative over the whole year. As the technologies get developed, North America becomes a big carbon sink, bristling with technologies to sell the rest of the world. And we can do it without living in Japanese-style tubes and bicycling everywhere. More importantly, we fight global terrorism in the best possible way, we cut off their air supply. But, I suppose that makes too much sense.