From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jun 29 2002 - 03:11:15 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Brian Opined:
> << /I oppose world government, and support the government rejecting
> inequitable treaties like the ridiculous Kyoto protocol.
>
> The U.S. would be maimed economically, while China gets to pollute
> its ass off. Just more socialist nonsense.
>
We will see how ridiculous it is when average temperature jumps
20% or so. Of course by then it will be too late to do a lot
about it except hang on for dear life.
> No thanks.
>
> The U.N. only gets to overrule countries it can get other countries
> to apply force to.
> Brian />>
> ===============================================================
> What the world needs now is not love, sweet love, or Uber-Management by
> Euro-styled bureaucrats; but rather, better energy technology that
> pollutes far less, pollutes not at all, or pollutes, but the effulent
> is captured by technological means. All this has to be constrained by
> cost factors of this technofix development, and the material being used.
> I am focusing chiefly on coal, in this case because it is comparatively
> easy to get to and is superabundent, at least for now. I embrace the use
> of non-poluting technology, as long as it produces enough useable energy.
>
Coal adds horribly to air pollution generally and the greenhouse
problems especially. It is certainly no part of a solution.
> So who gives a fart on what I embrace? The Answer is Nobody and his Brother.
> My point is that the market seems to behave as I have prefaced above.
> Now how do we as Joe Six-Pack pressure those who wield economic and
> governmental power? My answe is to judiciously bind with groups that see
> the technofix solution as most affable. Most utility and automobile
> companies are in the money business, not the energy and transportation
> business. So the economic reward has to be seen by such types to invest.
>
They will not see this in the short term so you get nowhere
without government mandates to clean it up by X% by such and
such date. Sorry, but that is the way it is.
- samantha
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