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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (23457)	12/16/2008 10:11:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

TP, if you are right or wrong about global warming, we will not get clean air and water if we halve CO2 emissions. The economic destruction would cause megadeath and pollution would increase, not decrease because people couldn't afford the luxury of low polluting technologies. CO2 is not "dirty". You have been misled about it being a pollutant. Water quality won't improve by reducing CO2 emissions. Where or how did you get that idea? Mqurice

To: TigerPaw who wrote (23457)	12/16/2008 10:19:19 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Err...you are forgetting we'ed go broke doing it, at least per all the free market hucksters who told us Wall Street was best off with less regulation. That crowd is sure that anything which improves the environment is bad for the economy. They would have collectively died of fright if Al Gore had proposed spending $2T to fight AGW by shifting the entire USA imported oil equivalent of energy to solar. Of course now that we are spending that much to bailout the excesses of the free markets, well, its a different matter entirely. So much for what economists know... I do note with some amusement that the Skeptical Economist from Denmark, who likes to approach AGW denial from the economic prediction front, has been rather muted since the world's economies started blowing up. Perhaps it finally dawned on him that economic projections are a good deal more suspect than climate projections. LOL!