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Skriven 2007-02-04 22:27:58 av Josh Hill (14986.babylon5)
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:53:54 -0600, "Carl" <cengman7@hotmail.com>
wrote:

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>"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message 
>news:uu0ds25e33vl7qk3ng1t0a03afasb2vt57@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 08:12:03 -0600, "Dennis \(Icarus\)"
>> <ala_dir_diver@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:f4b7s2ta264pav38btnevcmft3opciinr1@4ax.com...
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>>>> Wind turbines, nuclear plants, cellulosic ethanol, PEM fuel cells,
>>>> plug-in hybrids, geothermal heat pumps, and basic conservation
>>>> measures are more than adequate to avert the most serious consequences
>>>> of greenhouse gas emissions. Far from causing an economic disaster,
>>>> the implementation of those technologies would add little to our
>>>> energy costs -- but only if we start now.
>>>>
>>>> It is nothing less than criminal that that is not being done -- that
>>>> George Bush went back on the promise he made to the American people
>>>> six years ago -- and that ideologues and corporations continue to
>>>> confuse the public with their pseudo- and anti-scientific rot.
>>>
>>>There are folks trying to do something. Heck, there are folks trying to
>>>establish a wind farm off Nantucket and they're running into all kinds of
>>>resistance.
>>
>> Unfortunately, individual measures aren't enough. Warming requires --
>> and can be solved by -- action by the government. The fact that the
>> government has refused to act is IMO one of the great crimes of our
>> time. They are quite literally selling the future of our planet.
>>
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>To be fair, no big economy has really done much.

Not nearly enough. But the Europeans have done much more than we have,
and, while they haven't met all their goals, they've promised to do
more. And we're much worse offenders to begin with.

More to the point, I think that in this, as in so many things, we have
to lead the way. It's hard for an Italian company to cut back on CO2
emissions when its American competitors don't face the same
constraints. If you look at the additional costs, they aren't really
that high, but when you're in a competitive business, small costs
matter a lot. And there's the matter of stature or weight: since the
end of WW I and the establishment of the League of Nations, a
disproportionate number of major international initiatives and
treaties have originated here.

-- 
Josh

[Truly] I say to you, [...] angel [...] power will be able to see that [...]
these to whom [...] holy generations [...]. After Jesus said this, he departed.

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