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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think, Ralph, with the greatest respect, that the very real issue of "global warming" is too important to take that attitude to. You and I will probably be dead before anything too catastrophic happens, but I really don't want to leave a crisis awaiting my grandchildren.
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Harry, I was born in a top 10 target during Mutually Assured Destruction. I came of age in the OPEC/We're running out of resources/Survivalist era. I listened to the Nuclear Winter arguments (Solve global warming by a few clean nukes in the Sahara? Hmm...). Nowadays, it's the world is coming to an end due to Global Warming. Sorry, I've heard endless tales of catastrophy "if we didn't do something" (usually couched as some version of give up your freedom/lifestyle/future for somebody else's fears). Well, we "didn't do something" over and over and the world didn't come to an end. It just got more affluent. I'm sorry, but I'm not buying catastrophy now. Maybe the wolf is really coming, but I'm not even certain about that. And certainly not going to give up my lifestyle for other people's fears.