"Did you come just for this topic?" To comment in just this thread? No, I will probably make other posts. I lurk, and have been doing so for at least a year-

"Did you come just for this topic?" To comment in just this thread? No, I will probably make other posts. I lurk, and have been doing so for at least a year--so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. I just felt like sharing my ideas and (limited) knowledge as they relate to this topic, that is all. "In this utopia you describe" Utopia, as in, the part where I describe the use of desalinized water to irrigate crops, or pumps to keep sea level rise at bay? Seems pretty feasible. "If you're wrong on that point, then we've hurt people for nothing, right?" Are you implying that every dollar that goes to renewable energy R&D would instead go towards 'alleviating hurt'? Could I instead claim that every dollar for renewable energy R&D will come from our defense budget, leaving our 'alleviating hurt' budgets untouched? Now, are either of those reasonable assumptions? "Since we're cutting and pasting from web sites" I didn't cut and paste from any web site. I synthesized my own ideas. Well, except for the first two paragraphs, which came from the available literature/news sources I have ingested over the years. So, if you've read the content from the first two paragraphs on other websites, did the information concern you? Did it prompt you to do your own investigation into the available literature? "Everything else is just philosophy." Everything besides what the website you included says? Or parts/all of my comment? You've confused me with this statement.