DGDevin wrote:

Your position is curious: on the one hand you acknowledge that
resources are limited, but on the other you display apparent contempt
for the idea that blind consumption with both fists is maybe not a
good policy because you figure at the last minute somebody will
discover a cure for this self-inflicted disease. Of course either
way you won't be around to see it, so you're rolling the dice with
the future of our children and grandchildren all in the name of you
being able to run the air conditioning full blast. Short-sighted
greed really isn't a flattering characteristic.

I think you read my position improperly. I do not acknowledge that the
product of resources are limited (e.g., when we run out of whales, we use
Kerosene).

I do display contempt that reductions in a better life now for some
evanescent, gossamery future goal is a good idea.

While you are correct that I won't be around to see what my
great-great-grandchildren have to contend with, I am around now. That I
should swelter in the current heat wave - thereby risking heat stroke - so
that electricity usage will be reduced because we need to conserve coal so
that our progeny may need it, is insane.

Even IF the claims of "running out" are correct, conservation now is merely
a delaying tactic.