Hi Erin and Platt!
Bill: The second they hit the World Trade Center, I gave away my week's
salary.
ERIN: Betsy didn't comment on how much she gave, maybe a card with "stop the
whining"?
Also I noticed Risky didn't editorialize about half of Bill's point about
America's consumption. Was it too risky for Risky?
You are welcome to call Bill Maher a hypocrite but to point out the parts I
cut out of the transcript showed he did give a week salary to WTC relief and
drives a car with a hybrid engine? So the point he argues and his behavior
seem less hypocritical then what you are trying to make it out to be.
If you want to try to editorialize this I would be interested.
RISKY:
OK, I didn't realize NYC was a third world nation. Also, I wonder if he gave
it before or after almost losing his job/show/ratings for calling THE US
cowards and the terrorists brave? Do hybrid engines count as foriegn aid now?
As for consumption, I have commented on that issue in this forum many times.
The trouble with the number is that it is floated as if it is pulling
resources out of some nonreplenishable, non-replaceable, zero-sum pool. In
reality, most resources are replenishable, substitutable or recyclable.
(This of course implies good resource management -- something that advanced
nations are usually pretty adept at while most 3rd world nations are
terrible) Coal and oil aren't replenishable, but there is no shortage of
energy, the only question is how much it costs to extract it or capture it.
So far, the history of modern nations is that the cost of resources tends to
continuously drop over time -- implying that supply continues to improve
faster than demand. Most of this comes because we get better at finding,
extracting, substituting, refining etc. with technology.
BTW, did you know that there is enough known reserves of oil resources
(including shale) to last 5000 years? I am sure we can get some good hydrogen
cell technology up and running in that time.
As for global warming, the theory should concern us. Betsy is technically
correct that the actual temperature effects will be primarily to warm up
colder places at night in the winter which will be welcomed by those of us in
the far north, but that doesn't justify messing with mother nature. I
heartily support fuel cell and other alternative energy sources being
developed to replace dependencies on fossil fuels. Massive research into
alternative energy sources could imo dwarf the feeble Kyoto results.
Risky
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