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Agree with Redux. We could forget the entire climate debate and begin to make the change over to renewable energy simply as a matter of national security. Look at the price in lives and money spent on wars in the Middle East so that we can have secure access to petroleum. Even if we manage to corner the market on every petroleum source in the world, oil is still a finite substance. There are no dinosaurs and giant ferns dying away somewhere and undergoing the geologic process that ends in an oil field. It is time for every last one of us to wake up. Look at it this way: If the climatologists are wrong and there's no such thing as global warming, but we go to alternative energy, we will be winners any way. If they are right and we do nothing, we are going to pay a terrible price down the road. Our children and grandchildren will curse us for the chaos we will bequeath to them.
People need to stop treating climate change as if it were an article of faith in some obscure religion. It is real; it is happening now, and we need to act to insure that the world continues to be habitable place for species other than cockroaches.
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