At 09:48 PM 1/23/2001 +0100, denis bider wrote:
>3.2 million years ago, the world might have been 10 degrees cooler, but it
>was also a great deal different.
How was it different, or is this just a random assertion? 3.2M years is
yesterday in geological terms.
>Now you're free to do some calculations:
>- How much does it cost to rebuild San Francisco and New York, among other
>places, from scratch?
>- How much does it cost to change our energy habits?
Over time, the answer to these questions is not obvious. While the up
front cost is probably higher, paving old cities like SF and NYC and
replacing them with new ones could very well lead to a cost savings over
the long run. Changing the energy habits of the world are probably far
more expensive, directly and indirectly, than you are guessing.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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