Love those TED talks. Always learn something. I hadn't thought about it in
quite those terms. Something to chew on, for sure.
--Bob
On Nov 8, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Well, I make a pretty strange conservative. I don't watch Fox News (nor
> MSNBC for the same reason). I favor a single payer health system (or
> even Obama/Romney Care with a lot of caveats) and I think the fiscal
> cliff should be resolved by a 50/50 split of tax increases (did I say
> that?) and expense reductions. But I did vote for Romney because I
> consider him a moderate Republican (despite the lies he had to tell to
> get the nomination) and for the reason I stated below which is that I
> thought he had the best chance of working a compromise with the Senate
> and House.
>
> And there is one other big reason which is that I gravely fear the well
> meaning intentions of the Obama EPA. After about 3 years of fairly
> intense study I am convinced that the modest climate change we have seen
> is primarily natural, that we have no way to predict where its going and
> any attempt to defeat it is bound to failure and will be an absolute
> colossal waste of resources and a major drain on world economies.
> Furthermore, if I'm wrong, I'm not much concerned about it. That's
> because I also follow the ideas of Bjorn Lomborg (a Danish economist)
> who (unlike me) believes that much of the climate change is
> anthropogenically caused. But whether it is or not I agree with him in
> accepting his economic analysis which is that mitigation of the effects
> of climate change is vastly cheaper than trying to prevent it. He argues
> that, even if we can defeat it, we will sacrifice untold numbers of the
> poor because of the resources foolishly wasted on trying to save what
> will be a much richer world population in 2100 rather than the poor of
> today's world who are dying of disease and malnutrition today. If
> you're unaware of Lomborg see this 16 minute TED presentation on
> establishing global priorities. Fighting climate change is the last
> thing on the list.
> <http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_priorities.html>
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