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We have a real dilemma... If we spread enough plutonium dust around, it will make original sin look like a walk in the park. (Which it was I believe :-) On th
by T_S_ 16y ago
We have a real dilemma...
If we spread enough plutonium dust around, it will make original sin look like a walk in the park. (Which it was I believe :-)
On the other hand, if we spew enough CO2 there might not be any sinners left in 50 generations.
People are standing around waiting for a techno fix. That won't happen without incentives. We need to tax the heck out of carbon. Fine to cut other taxes and pay Grandma's heating bill. But we must change relative prices to get the right focus. Economic forces are much more powerful than a few government research projects.
Is anyone driving less at $100 oil? We need about $50-$100 of tax per barrel to get the ball rolling. And a carbon equivalent tax on coal and gas.
- tptacek 16y agoAnd so, if you live in an area of Subsaharan Africa with poor to nonexistent infrastructure, your answer is basically "die of dysentary"? You cannot look at this problem solely from the surroundings of your couch. I promise you, the dysentary entamoeba pathogen is many tens of thousands of times scarier than 100msv of radiation. The prohibitively high cost of energy in the world is actually a bad thing.