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Skriven 2007-02-07 23:58:21 av Josh Hill (15215.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Global warming, among other things
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:59:18 -0600, "Michael Harper"
<michaelharper05@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:8d1ds2t047kc7g4p09osmg2cscgvi1ugfu@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:37:00 -0600, "Michael Harper"
>> <michaelharper05@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> >To the folks who rant about global warming, yes, it's a bad thing. But we
>> >caused it, and it's not something we can clean up in a week. We have to
>do
>> >something, but I can tell you that the sea levels will rise more than a
>> >little bit before we get global warming under control. Better start
>building
>> >levees.
>>
>> Sea levels will rise relatively little more if the great ice sheets
>> don't melt, some 20 feet if they do. Which would of course be a
>> disaster -- much of Florida gone, Bangladesh, the Netherlands, New
>> Orleans, a seawall around Manhattan, etc., etc. The good news is that
>> we probably can stave off the melting -- but only if we act
>> immediately.
>>
>> Unfortunately, while President Bush says he's deeply concerned about
>> global warming, he refuses to act because he says he believes that
>> industry will lower CO2 emissions "voluntarily." So nothing gets done.
>
>And won't, as long as that worthless ni-mun de pigu is still in the Oval.
>I'm sick of both batches of career politicos right now. A plague on both
>their houses!
>
>Elect Kinky Friedman for President. Why the hell not? He can't screw things
>up any worse!
>
>Seriously, I don't know at this point what we can do. I'm not a scientist, I
>just write the stuff, and I'm not very good at it.But I do know this; if it
>costs money and doesn't make money, nobody will do anything about it. No
>company, no government. The fat cats could care less about global warming,
>because fixing the pollution that's caused it will cost them money, and they
>don't like that.

Basically. The sad thing, though, is that it would cost very /little/
money.

But -- even business is fed up with the Bush Administration's
inaction. They know that carbon limits are inevitable and want a cap
and trade system they can live with, rather than a crazy-quilt system
of state and local regulations or legislation that would cost them
/more/ money.

The strange thing about all this is that the Bush Administration is so
far out in space many in the American public can't believe that the
problem is as pressing or the fixes as easy as they are -- because,
after all, if that were true, wouldn't the President be recommending
them? IMO, it's certain that that will change rapidly when we get a
new president, whether Republican or Democratic. We'll have national
and international action because /we have no choice./ There's even
precedent for it in the successful international effort to protect the
ozone layer by halting the emission of CFC's. Bush's inaction can only
be seen in the light of the massive brain damage that gave us Katrina.
He's inimitably incompetent.

-- 
Josh

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these to whom [...] holy generations [...]. After Jesus said this, he departed.

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