Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The Planet's Green Economies?
Hm, let's see.......Well, I guess that if you based it strictly on per capita, per annum carbon emissions, you really couldn't do a heck of a lot better than Cuba (2.36 tons), North Korea (3.18 tons), and Syria (2.65 tons).......Gee, I wonder if those peeps would ever come here and share their true green secrets with us.
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It seems reasonable to consider
the problem of growing population and its required infrastructure v.
finite resources .
I remember in the '70s people saying that there was only 10 more years worth of oil. I think what we have here is a case of as something becomes more expensive it becomes more profitable to go after in places that before were unprofitable. Yes, fossil fuels are finite but so, too, is the sun, the human species, etc.. I highly suspect that as gas becomes super expensive and/or rare, somebody will invent a car that gets 250 miles a gallon and we'll all undoubtedly find something else to worry about (manbearpig again, perhaps).
The sun is more finite than coal, oil...and probabably the human species. I submitted non-frivolous
links-fossil fuels are quite finite
despite any polyanna projections.
Not for you and I, but in a few generations. They will not recall
us fondly.
The sad reality, though, is that there are no feasible alternatives. But I'm not really worried. As long as the government doesn't screw things up too terribly (by continuing to promulgate scams such as ethanol and wind and through burdensome regulations), I think that these future generations will probably figure it out. I am far more concerned about bankrupting them with Medicare, Medicaid, and acting as the world's policeman.
I would also submit that according to the International Energy Agency, there exists on the planet 30,000 trillion cubic feet of RECOVERABLE (and, please, keep in mind here that the technology to recover these resources is growing exponentially) natural gas, and that this will be more than enough to sustain us for another 280 years or so. That ain't bad.
Considering how these regimes all like to kill thousands and thousands of people, they might do well to consider a Soylent Green economy.
And yes the three are typical examples of socialist states.
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