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

To: neolib who wrote (20528)	2/20/2008 7:40:32 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 36921

My statement "There is no "slow down" option here", doesn't vaguely resemble "confusing human needs with physics. Sure the climate does not care about human needs, but humans should, and should base their decisions on human needs. The "car" is moving a long at a fixed speed. Every year we move one year in to the future. If the fears of Al Gore are true than we may "turn" to late. If global warming isn't such a major problem, than maybe we shouldn't turn at all, or should delay our turn for a long time. The problem is that we are driving through fog, so we can't see the right point to turn, and in this analogy we can't really slow down. Reducing CO2 output early and hard, would be making a sharp turn very soon, not slowing down.