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Originally Posted by NetHorse
In 300 years, (when we are all dead, our children are dead and their children are dead) the temperature will be 15 degrees hotter on average.
Quick, lets push for a cap and trade tax right now. Force people and businesses to struggle in a time of economic crisis.
Until new technology is available to everyone taxing energy in the name of global warming is just a political agenda.
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While I am not a proponent of cap and trade, which is a corporate scheme, the logic behind it, to promote new technologies which produce energy from sources other than muslim oil, still seems like a good idea.
new technology doesn't magically appear*, and the lesson of this collapse is that times of economic ruin are not good times for inventing new technology.
other countries, especially china and the eu, are already well ahead of us in non muslim oil technology. Doing nothing allows them to get even further ahead of us.
*I should say "new conceptual technology" - for example, computers occured because of the huge amounts of money and manpower put into early computing technology during ww2 and teh cold war - many years of military spending eventually resulted in the spinoff of personal computing technology - after about 30 years.
We should take the billions per year we are spending to be ineffectual teamamerica worldpolice and instead spend it on inventing new energy technologies, so we can once again be the world leaders in a critical new technology revolution.