Thursday, February 28, 2013
Can I Get an Amen on this, People?
"The greatest evils are poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, disease and hunger, all the conditions that deprive people of opportunities and limit their freedoms. The humanist ethic accepts an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a small price to pay, if world-wide industrial development can alleviate the miseries of the poorer half of humanity."......Freeman Dyson, physics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.............So there it is, people. Folks from the developing world wanting their piece of the pie, just like we've been having our piece of the pie (gorging on it even). And the only real way that they can achieve this is via access to abundant and affordable energy (this, as opposed to putting some solar panels on their huts simply because an individual from Alexandria Virginia, or Pacific Palisades California, or Marblehead Neck Massachusetts, or West Palm Beach Florida, or Newport Rhode Island, or the Upper East Side of Manhattan tells them to)....I mean, it certainly worked out well for us, no?
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I guess we shall see how small a price to pay it is.
Fair enough. I would just add that as bad as oil and natural gas can be, they're significantly less harmful to the environment and human beings than a lot of the alternatives that these poor people presently use; wood, dung, palm oil (the fact they cause deforestation, indoor air pollution, etc.), etc..
Biofuels are especially harmful to nations that have a hunger problem.
Yeah, if you combined the massive amounts of land for growing corn (and, yeah, pushing up the costs of food-stuffs) with the chopping down and burning of trees for charcoal and palm oil, there really isn't all that much green about any of this shit.
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