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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