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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
The money spent to counter global warming is like the money you spend on insurance - you may never need to use it, but if the shit hits the fan you're glad you paid the premiums all those years.
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Spexxvet, I read an interview with Bjorn Lomborg and his views make a lot of sense. Basically, he believes we should invest a lot of money making green energy cheap instead of wasting more of it on failed programs like "Cap and Trade". He talks a bit about geoengineering as well which I'm not such a big fan of.
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We've got to stop discussing global warming as if it's a contest between: Is global warming the end of the world, or is it a hoax perpetrated in the American people? It's neither. I think in some ways, the fact that the Guardian made it look like I flip-flopped is because it's so hard for anyone to see the world through any other prism than "It's either black or white -- it's a hoax or it's the end of the world."
It seems like we're still debating if the world is round or flat. I mean, come on, its round. But the real question for Christopher Columbus was: How do I best get to the West Indies? And that's the real issue: How do we plot a course to get from A to B. That's what this book is all about. It's about finding the smartest ways to get to that point
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