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KOM.Nausicaa said:
Just to comment: I don't believe mankind can be saved, or minimum, the world as we know it. Reading up on the matter since years, with real investment, not only forum talks and blogosphere, I have come to the conclusion we won't make it this time around. The comprehension of this complex matter is too slow, the lobby of the fossil industry too strong, and the time too short.
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Sorry, Naus, but as you further reveal your innermost thoughts, I have no choice but to conclude you are becoming extreme in your thought process.

As a matter of semantics, to say, "we wont' make it this time ..." leads me to wonder what thought process produced that observation? There is not another time. This is not a parallel universe of humanity with do-overs and make up games!

Perhaps the reason why the world won't achieve things at the pace and level you vehemently demand of it is that folks have concluded there is just one humanity and we exist merely once. If we screw this up either by misprioritizing our economies on the desire of meeting a theory, or denude our landscapes and poison our environments, then the outcome is likely to be no different.

I don't share your pessimism. No doubt you conclude therefore that I "don't get it," but instead, I think I "do get it." I think that again you fail to realize and appreciate just how far the US as a nation has come since the days of even the 1970's. Take a trip to Pittsburgh or New York City. The areas there are clean and beautiful. They were not always that way four decades ago, but a lot was done to clean things up.

We in America have spent a lot of treasure and effort to improve our environment. I think we deserve a lot of credit for that. But, most of those improvements were the result of individual enterprise based on individual conclusions. America may not represent the vast government orchestrated efforts it appears you would like to see.

But, I believe the combined efforts of millions of free-minded and freedom-empowered people can achieve great things. So, I don't share your gloomy assessment. The only thing that really concerns me is the results once more of the contrived efforts are revealed to paint a singular picture on global warming. I am concerned that amid the righteous responses, we might also get an overreaction as people discount the value of the rational choices and methods that would yeild good results.

Environmentalism doesn't need scare tactics to perpetuate its wisdom. And left to the rational choices on the rational timelines, improvements will be realized in their own time and with lasting positive results people can count on.

Ken
 
Since there are some on here that don't know how to play nice, looks like this one has gone down the drain too.
 
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