On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:44:13 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:04:11 -0400, Warp wrote:
> 
>> >> A solution to global warming? No.  A solution to running out of oil?
>> >> Quite possibly.  A solution to having a power generation technology
>> >> that a poor uneducated population can use without fear of actually
>> >> killing people on the other side of the world when they screw up?
>> >> Sure.
>> > 
>> >   Burning coal is only a temporary solution, and a bad one.
> 
>> I'd have to agree with Darren here, it may be a bad solution, but
>> unless there is another solution, the alternative is "well, it sucks to
>> be you since you won't have power - deal with it."
> 
>   The problem is that if poor countries started increasing their burning
> of fossil fuels significantly, *the entire world* would suffer from it,
> not just them.
> 
>   So if it sucks, then it sucks.

I don't disagree with you, Warp, but unfortunately there are those who 
have power who think what happens in other countries doesn't matter.  *I* 
am not one of those people, and I wish those who are would pull their 
heads out.

Jim

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