[lbo-talk] death of environmentalism/dancing in the streets

Bob Morris bob.morris at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 08:05:07 PST 2007


Not quite sure what you mean. I drive a Prius and oppose coal plants, so I think we're in probably in basic agreement though.

My main point was the solutions need to be planetary to be effective. How we get there is the problem.

On Nov 17, 2007 10:25 AM, W. Kiernan <wkiernan at gmail.com> wrote:


> Bob Morris wrote:
> >
> > ...It also needs to be worldwide. If somehow the US bans new coal
> plants and China builds
> > 300 of them, well, things will be worse not better.
>
> Wrong! Because the alternative is not that the U.S. builds 300
> coal-fueled plants and China builds none; it is that the U.S. builds 300
> coal plants and China builds 300 coal plants. Obviously, in comparison,
> the first scenario is far better for the environment.
>
> This is the same argument people repeatedly use against people buying a
> Toyota Prius; for his daily to drive from his concrete driveway across
> paved roads to his employer's parking garage and back again, your moron
> neighbor just took delivery of a new 4WD V-10 Ford Excursion, so it
> "logically" follows that instead of you buying a Prius you too should
> give up and purchase a 10 MPG land yacht as well.
>
> Yours WDK - WKiernan at gmail.com
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-- Bob Morris



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