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RE: I might care
By quiksilvr on 1/1/2010 5:42:25 PM , Rating: 5
Damn the whole Global Warming nonsense and just look at the logical reasoning:

1) Pollution is bad for your health.
2) Cutting down pollution is good for us.

If people just focused more on the fact that spewing out pollution is bad for us instead of the whole "The ice caps this" and "The polar bears that", we would waste less time arguing about it and more time just making cleaner vehicles.

In my opinion, we should use hemp oil as bio-diesel (hemp does not contain THC like marijuana and will not make you high if burned). It grows easily, the oil has been proven to work and will really help push clean diesel in this country.

RE: I might care
By BansheeX on 1/2/2010 7:45:41 AM , Rating: 4
It's not as simple as saying "pollution is bad, therefore let's not pollute". People have always weighed the costs of a technology against its benefits before embracing it. Horses crap all over the place, but people used them for centuries as their chief method of transport. A lot of earlier cars and coal plants were quite dirty in their emissions: does that mean people shouldn't have used them? We needed those dirty, immature technologies or we would have never advanced to the point of improving or discovering cleaner ones.

The sad thing is that we've completely underappreciated the significance of discovering fission. Electric cars have a big carbon footprint BECAUSE WE DO NOT UTILIZE OUR KNOWLEDGE. It's not because of any legitimate cost or safety concern that we are only 25% nuclear power, it's because of mass ignorance and fear.

