Agree-to-Disagree

Yes, being sluggish to act carries a cost as well. But it is often different people who pay the price. A person who is old has a different perspective...

I was using the word "world" to mean both the literal planet AND everything else associated with the planet. Because the world is made up of many part...

"What's best for the *world*" can be interpreted in many different ways. For example: - having a cheap and reliable energy supply - improving the stan...

As I said before, the west is stupid if they are not worried about green policies damaging their economy. People in the west usually assume that the w...

Vaping is largely about nicotine addiction. The same as cigarettes and tobacco. You could call it the nicotine industry. Nice flavors are added to ent...

The effect of this political decision was that many people started vaping. Even people who had never smoked. Solving one problem caused another proble...

A person is the product of both nature AND nurture. Nature may be stronger than nurture for some characteristics, but nurture may be stronger than nat...

The west is stupid if they are not worried about green policies undercutting their economy. The west will probably shift a lot of their manufacturing ...

Queen Elizabeth became Queen due to the death of her father. The position of King/Queen had become more of a figurehead role by then. She had no direc...

One of the problems with this statement is the use of the vague term "we". Who exactly is "we"? I assume that you mean everybody. But not everybody wa...

I assume that you live in America. I live in a commonwealth country and until recently had Queen Elizabeth as our reigning monarch. This worked very w...

Frank, do you have a personal preference for which system you would like to live in? Monarchy, Oligarchy, or Democracy?

Do you have any goals which aren't related to global-warming/climate-change? What if the world dictatorship doesn't support or allow these other goals...

When you say "a strong world government", I think that you mean a "dictatorship". Is that really what you want?

Don't tell Mikie because he/she thinks that the whole world is standing around a campfire holding hands and singing Kumbaya.

What percentage of humans are "trolls"? Perhaps trolls outnumber non-trolls. I suspect that many people don't want to lower their standard of living d...

Women would be putting themselves at risk BECAUSE we are preventing them from getting legal abortions. The women don't make their decisions in a vacuu...

Some of the points that I have listed go beyond the issue of whether people should be allowed to have control over their own bodies. They show what th...

Don't worry, medical science is trying to reduce discrimination against men by allowing them to have a womb transplant. This further complicates the i...

I agree with this. There are a number of other issues which also complicate abortion: - other locations whose restrictions on abortion are less strict...

You make many good points. I was only commenting on the efficiency of fossil fuel use.

I have looked at Mitloehner's article from U Cal again and I can see 2 statements that misled me. These are: The first statement says that fossil meth...

I thought that efficiency of fossil fuel use was relevant to a discussion about global-warming/climate-change.

It is appalling that you are using ad hominem on The Philosophy Forum. You are implying that I am not an adult. That is ironic, since compared to me y...

In 2022 there were just over 40,000 McDonald's restaurants in the world. Which do you think is more efficient in terms of fossil fuel use? McDonald's,...

What about economies of scale? Economies of scale also apply to the cow industry (sorry Mikie :grin: - you can substitute any other industry if you do...

What I am about to say will upset a lot of people. Don't worry Mikie, it is not about cows. :grin: Big Oil is not purely evil. What do you want oil co...

Okay. I promise not to talk about cows until the next time that I mention them. :grin:

Okay, I have thought carefully about what you are saying and I think that I can see what you mean. I have been talking about the theoretical situation...

If pigs could fly that would help. :grin: A word of caution Frank. Be careful what you wish for. :pray:

Thanks Frank. That one made my day. :grin:

Please stop talking common sense. Somebody might believe you. :grin:

I have also introduced sheep and goats. They are all ruminants and 3 billion ruminants must produce a hell of a lot of methane. Not to mention the met...

So Mikie and Benkei agree with each other. What were you saying about two idiots agreeing? :joke: :joke:

When you say "altogether stopping greenhouse gas production" are you including emissions of biogenic methane? - there are just under 1 billion cows in...

Yes, that does help. Thank you for the clear explanation.

From your link: I was not aware that there was previous work saying that "Most of the warming, however, will emerge relatively quickly". The quote doe...

Are you saying that the climate scientists at NASA are wrong?

Here is a simple flow diagram showing the Carbon Cycle ignoring Fossil Carbon. I would like to find out what people think of it. It is meant to be a s...

Being a cynical old man I wondered if they made this up because they knew that people wouldn't bother fighting global warming if the effects were cent...

You make a very interesting point. This is the view that most climate scientists believed and they have told the public about this. However, some clim...

I am not sure. I will have to think about it. :chin:

I agree that the word "additional" makes things more confusing. But I disagree with some of your assumptions. The phrase "contributes 14% of global wa...

I have read your analysis carefully and there are a number of points that I disagree with. To prevent things from getting too complicated I will just ...

Education is not needed when you already know everything. :cool:

Mikie was participating in "School Strikes for Climate" the day that they taught that stuff. :grin: Everybody knows that the best way to solve global-...

No true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge. No true Scotsman has ever stated or even hinted at the possibility that in the future methane may no long...

Thanks Frank, you have explained the situation better than I have. Many of the other people in this discussion are talking about a different issue to ...

I was talking about you Mikie. :grin:

I can see that there are possibilities for solving problems (like solving global warming). But I am cynical and don't believe that people will do what...