You know very well you are taking that line out of context. You suggested I was asking you and other people generally How to Save the World. Well no, ...
Really? A strawman? Okay Pattern, tell me - what happens when enough people don't sign up for your approach? All those who have signed up to the view ...
I've always found emojis childish - particularly in a forum such as this. That aside, I'm not a "one truther." I am however arguing that science const...
Ditto. I'm sorry too. For my over-reaction - just to be crystal clear. So, you're saying science doesn't establish valid knowledge of reality. — karl ...
So, you're saying science doesn't establish valid knowledge of reality. It hasn't built, fact by hard won fact into a highly valid and coherent unders...
I cannot promise I'll be there soon - I have my hands fairly full, and while I thought it was important to state a position here, I'm not out to sprea...
Doom mongers, who don't read other's posts - and so don't take on board repeated explanations of why, what's right about their ideas is subsumed under...
It's the natural inference of your position, as set out in a thread entitled - How to Save the World. You're making people the problem - and that's al...
I'd argue against it. It's too simplistic. It implies we have no choice but to destroy the environment, but that's not so. The reason we have had such...
I've seen something like this recently; it might even have been you who brought it up before - I'd have to check. I argued against it - not because I ...
Ah, the "not real communism" defense. It never is, is it? Russia wasn't communist, Venezuela wasn't socialist - nor was Cuba, or anywhere else you car...
I'm in the UK, and consider myself centrist. I liked Tony Blair - Labour Prime Minister from 1997- 2007, and I generally dislike the Conservatives. Bu...
A lot of business leaders didn't go to Davos in the desert though - did they? Admittedly, it was mainly companies who's business model requires they g...
That's really quite hopeful. Those people are on the frontline of climate change, and they're acting now - with some really quite amazing efforts. Bel...
I didn't say it's a hidden fact. I said it's a 'hidden' advantage. I do not mean to suggest 'shhhh! - people don't know we have fossil fuel infrastruc...
Right, but it was a counter example to your suggestion that renewable energy should be applied piecemeal, and on a commercial basis, to compete with f...
I don't believe that's correct. I think there's a massive 'hidden' advantage for fossil fuels in the fact that we've developed and applied the infrast...
That seems like a reasonable argument, from a certain perspective - but in fact it's not. It doesn't recognize that ideological motives for action cut...
And no small measure of self regard! But thank you Frank. That's a kind thing to say and a lovely thing to hear. I do think there's a natural moral du...
Erm... Of course I love us. I love me. I want my genetic, intellectual and economic legacy to be carried forward. I want human inquiry and creativity ...
I think we're incredibly conscious of the dangers of nuclear power and go to extraordinary lengths to contain it. That's not so with fossil fuels. So,...
We might need to Frank. Climate change can also go the other way. We might need to stave off an ice age someday - if only we survive our technological...
I'm not wasting my time writing something you won't read, or perhaps, simply don't understand. You are certainly not commenting from engagement with, ...
Solving the energy issue is the first necessary step to securing a sustainable future. Energy is fundamental to everything we do. And clean energy is ...
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time - all human beings were hunter-gatherers, living in tribal groups of about 40-120 individuals. Ruled by an a...
Your view of solar/wind energy seems to me colored by the piecemeal application of technology you see around you - but the full potential of the techn...
If we were trying to explain what happened very simply - we could say that, but the reality is far more complex. I have construed the Church's reactio...
Statistical comparisons like this can be misleading. For example, did you know far more people die in hospital than in McDonald's. But if I fell ill -...
There's a indirect, but definite relationship between the Manhattan Project, and the mistake made by the Church in relation to the discovery of scient...
You are approaching upon the idea central to my thesis, but keep slipping past it. Consider humankind, developing from animal ignorance into human kno...
Only if one continues with an ideologically dictated, backward and piecemeal application of technology - I identify as the real underlying problem. By...
Anti-natalism unto extinction? That's extreme. If the argument were we should have less children - I don't agree we should seek to force that conclusi...
Let's say we have the discussion and worse case scenario we conclude we don't know, and are pretty much playing it by ear. There remains a possibility...
I've thought about it, but anti-natalism is a misconceived approach in several ways; the most immediate that it is morally objectionable to construe t...
We currently have the industrial capacity, the intelligence, the skills, and the capitalist economic scaffolding in place to implement the technology,...
I envy heroin addicts. Their life has purpose. Wife, job, kids, house, car - what's the purpose in any of that if our existence is unsustainable? It's...
Thanks for your remarks, but if you believe this: Then perhaps you have some reading to do before you do any writing. Google the word 'desalination' -...
My arguments are a proposal. How to save the world is not some vague sentimental notion - it's a plan. A plan you haven't read, A plan Jake has glance...
What's your plan? Bitch about the need to limit technology in some vague way? How? It's not about that for you - or you'd be able to say how. It's abo...
You're telling me what I'm saying again. I'm not saying that. You're thus attacking a strawman again. I'm not arguing we need to become super rational...
I do not accept your objection is valid. It's the difference between commercial debt - which you're talking about, and something more akin to sovereig...
Regulation of knowledge is the problem. Failure to recognize scientific method as the means to valid knowledge of reality from 1630; and persisting in...
Updating it how? Who decides? How much will that cost? Adapt how? In relation to what? Thoughts and prayers? What new environment? What's new about it...
I've answered this question. Mortgage fossil fuels to the world to monetize without extracting them, and use the money raised to fund fossil fuel infr...
You don't even understand your own argument implies there's nothing anyone can do. If you believe that, why go on about it? Are you just trying to rub...
Right, but transmission at high voltages requires base load, which is exactly what you have with coal or nuclear, you don't have with solar panels alo...
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