On Oct 23, 7:45*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
olddog wrote:

Yeah you won.

Not yet. We don't have ALL the oil.

You really need to watch the Frontline episode "Heat". *Dude...were
all screwed!

Keep hiding your head in the sand but it's going to catch up with you
or your kids. The earth can only support so many American life
styles. China, India and Micro Indonesia are taking over. Right now
they are going through the same growing pains America is still
growing through. Manhattan, Florida, parts of Texas, New Jersey
etc...are going to be under water. For Christ sake it's already
happening. Something is happening and if we don't wake up and address
it we're doomed. Personally, I hold little hope for the future of
mankind. Call me a kook but the evidence is here now.

Oh, fiddle-de-dee.

So what if parts of New Jersey and other places go under water - we'll move
inland. If we can put up with the population density of Hong Kong, the
entire planet's population could fit in a space the size of Georgia - and
Hong Kong has a pretty high standard of living.

By every economic standard, we are better off putting resources into
adjusting to whatever climate changes come upon us than trying to mitigate
them.

I don't want fire ants in Michigan. I don't want everybody who got
flooded out
or burned out or whatever moving here. I don't want this place to
turn into
Hong Kong (or even California).

Luckily, things will probably hold together well enough until I'm
gone, and I
don't have any children to worry about. But that's no excuse for me
to say
"I got mine--screw you."

We're going to have to cut back AND pursue other technologies.
Everybody
is looking for a single answer, and there isn't one.

And so what if climate change isn't caused by human activities? It's
a worthy
goal to not use up every damn thing we can. I'd be giddy if we never
sent another dollar to buy oil from unfriendly countries.

Cindy Hamilton