(12-13-2013 10:59 PM)Love and Honor Wrote: Take a look, it costs 50x more to try and stop climate change than adapt to it.
I'm not talking about whether or not global climate change is legitimate or not, but you can't ignore the tremendously inefficient economic methods being used to try and reverse carbon emissions.
IMO, we're going to need green energy anyways. I don't think we should gut the economy like some environmentalists want, but I do think we need to find real alternatives to fossil fuels and wean ourselves off of them. I read an article recently (which I'm trying to find), highlighting the areas of clean energy that are rapidly improving. I think they said that the efficiency of solar panels has increased my some 60% in the last decade.
I'm glad you fall on the "Not gutting the Economy" side. I might pay a little more attention to the environmental nuts if they took their crusade to China and India, maybe even Russia. One look at some of the photos of Chinese cities tells me there is more low hanging fruit there than here.
Of course the whacko's don't go to China to protest - they know the Chinese will lock'em up and throw away the key. You think Greenpeace is going to try and board any more Russian Oil Rigs?
No, they stir up sh!t here only because our weak kneed, PC society puts up with it.