09-29-2019, 08:38 AM
(09-28-2019, 08:55 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 28-Sep-2019 Burn baby
(09-28-2019, 08:11 AM)David Horn Wrote: Citing China is a joke. If any country is buying into renewable energy and electric cars, its China.
Building windmills and electric cars does not reduce carbon emissions, while a massive buildup of coal-fired electric plants massively increases carbon emissions.
Your beloved Communist tyranny in China is going to kill you.
Start counting down 11 years. Burn, baby, burn!
China started this century as an emerging though still backward country, and is already eating our lunch. Do they have a lot of coal-fired power plants? Yes, though they still generate less carbon per capita than we do, "advanced" country though we are. India, on the other hand, still has a larger per capita footprint, but they're where the Chinese were 15 years ago. Let's see how that changes, if it does.
We, on the other hand, have no excuse. We've suffered 45 years of reactionary politics. It shows. I hold Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as the two most responsible for letting the US go to hell. Today, the mantle has been passed to Trump and paleo-reactionary Republicans. If they get another 4 years, the mess they'll leave behind will far exceed the mess GWB left Obama. Yes, we're on the brink, but your analysis of why is simply wrong.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.