Comments on: Some People Never Change http://www.joabbess.com/2009/11/19/some-people-never-change/ Heaping Truth on Climate Chaos Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:24:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Richard http://www.joabbess.com/2009/11/19/some-people-never-change/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Richard Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:41:15 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=2571#comment-302 Who is going to pay for it then? A switch to clean energy is just magically going to happen with no economic impingement on peoples access to energy? People are going to somehow value energy more when it's free, but they have a knowledge that it is limited? Look at Easter Island! Frankly this is just a continutation of the attitude that got us to this point. I want everything that I can possibly have, but I don't want to thave to worry about the consequences or the end product of those decisions. You can't have your cake and eat it too sister. A switch to clean energy has to be facilitated by an evolution in attitudes towards consumption and use of all of earth's resources or not at all. So we use less fossil fuels; what about mining practices, nuclear waste, toxic by-products from various industries? Climate change "experts" keep pointing at clean energy as a panacea to the problems being faced, however they forcibly ignore the fact that with growing populations, we simply do not have the resources or the space to continue to live in the wasteful manner that we currently do, no matter where our energy comes from. Where are you going to put the last landfill? Who is going to pay for it then? A switch to clean energy is just magically going to happen with no economic impingement on peoples access to energy? People are going to somehow value energy more when it’s free, but they have a knowledge that it is limited? Look at Easter Island!

Frankly this is just a continutation of the attitude that got us to this point. I want everything that I can possibly have, but I don’t want to thave to worry about the consequences or the end product of those decisions. You can’t have your cake and eat it too sister. A switch to clean energy has to be facilitated by an evolution in attitudes towards consumption and use of all of earth’s resources or not at all. So we use less fossil fuels; what about mining practices, nuclear waste, toxic by-products from various industries? Climate change “experts” keep pointing at clean energy as a panacea to the problems being faced, however they forcibly ignore the fact that with growing populations, we simply do not have the resources or the space to continue to live in the wasteful manner that we currently do, no matter where our energy comes from.

Where are you going to put the last landfill?

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