George Will on global warming

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Invade them?

We have experience at that.

 

When greater Miami and New Orleans are largely submerged, what will the stalwart sons of Nancy
Reagan's handmaiden say, then?

 

Lyndon did. Cut the oil-depletion allowance. Got riped in the kept press for his trouble.
George Will. Boldly ahead of the scientific consensus. Yeesh.

 

You know, on the other board, we have All Purpose Hockey/Soccer Threads so that every time the Leafs win, I don't have to start a new thread that no one will read anyway.

. I'd suggest that we have a "An All Purpose Global Warning Running Thread"--since someone posts something about it every couple of days.

And in Hondo's case, maybe an "All Purpose anti-Islam Thread"

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I'm not going to be around to see how all this turns out a couple of hundred years from now, but I'm of the opinion that in the year 2100, Exxon/Mobil and Shell and all the other oil companies won't exist to provide a product as they do now. They'll be a new technology that comes along, and instead of world consuming whatever the amount is, 80 million barrels of oil a day, it'll be a small fraction of that. The oil companies will adapt or someone else will fill the gap. The economy will do just fine.

The people running this country don't have enough faith in this country's superior technological know-how. If by some quirk of fate it was determined that there wouldn't be another drop of oil coming out of the ground 10 years from now, we'd find a way to solve the problem without creating an economic disaster.

No, we can't force other countries to fall in line. The world used to look up to the U.S. because we led by setting a good example. Those days are long gone.

 

That's not the point.
The point I'm trying to raise is this: what if we do everything the environmentalists want us to do. Everything.
Then what? Think China is going to be so impressed by our self-sacrifice that they're going to start a massive solar and wind power industry?

 

hondo, we can't wait for everyone else, though, either.

I agree with Buck that we need to have a plan. But we need to start on the plan NOW.

We're already behind.

 

Sorry hondo, I just believe in cleaning up my own yard before bitching the neighbor's mess.

 

Then we'll be 20 or 30 or 40 years ahead of them with alternative technologies when their oil runs out. As it will. Which then becomes another competitive economic advantage for the US. Which seems to be the only imperative the Right uses to frame this issue.

 

Conservatives are really stuck on this one. They can't deny it anymore, so they have to alter their stances.

George Will is grasping, and it's painful to read.

As for the effect using less oil has on the economy, there's little point in debating it because it's going to happen, there's no way to stop it, and the market will adjust accordingly.

 

Exactly -- a year ago, the jury was still out.

Now global warming is a real phenomenon, but the economic impact is the problem.