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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Saw it... and still have the textbook! Thing about Connections was, it discussed the history of technology as it got us to today. After the Warming discussed where technology was taking us, namely, into global warming, rampant pollution in our air, land and sea, and an eventual ruination of our present way of life.
It might be easy enough to "just drill here," or "just put a nuke there," but if you're not going to be concerned about the waste and pollution that will result, you're not helping anything... in fact, you're just continuing to dig us deeper into a hole that's already too deep now.
Max'ing out the old, dirty technologies aren't going to help. Developing new technologies, and a new way of life, will.
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After The Warming is not factual, unlike Connections. It was a projection, an estimate of the future. It may match reality as it unfolds, it may not. Most likely, it will match in some aspects (in a broad sense) and miss on others.
We have a politically made resource gap currently. You seem to be happier with the limitations of the resource gap than changing the politics to allow more resources to be produced to narrow it. So be it. Don't expect me to not point out the factual reality. As for global warming, rerun the Connections about growing wines in England in 1000 A.D. It's barely getting warm enough to do that now. The world didn't come to an end in 1000 A.D.
I'm all in favor of cleaner technologies. When Solar gets cheaper than powerplant energy, I'll panel over my roof with solar cells (which might make me energy dependent, depending on efficency.) I might even do it at twice the amortized cost. (It's currently 4-5 times the cost.) But I'm not going back to 19th century technology while I'm waiting. The marketplace (and new technology) will solve these problems, if given the chance and some time.
What
really frustrates me is the attitude that somebody else has the
right to tell me how to live my life.
Non servum!