Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> > ``...is it an entirely bad thing to have big capital showing signs of
> > taking climate change seriously, and trying to push the
> > U.S. government into action?'' Doug
> >
> > ------------
> >
> > First to the last point. Yes it is a very bad thing. And big capital
> > is buried deep in all the regulatory agencies, conferences, papers,
> > and a whole industry of energy R&D.
>
> Chuck, none of the stuff you talk about is going to happen in our
> imaginable lifetime, and we've got to cut greenhouse gas emissions
> starting tomorrow.
Doug, Four years ago you wanted a policy which would get the electricity turned on in Iraq _right now_, and on that grounds questioned the Out Now slogan.
You always want things _right now_.
And you can't get them so quickly.
No one is going to cut enough of those emissions to prevent the coming of a new global context for human action. And it is the wildest pie-in-the-sky to think otherwise.
Carrol