On 4/17/2011 9:17 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/17/2011 0:59, Warp wrote:
>> You are basically asking me how to remove hunger and poverty from the
>> world. If I knew the answer, do you think I would be just sitting here
>> writing to this newsgroup?
>
> No. My point wasn't in expecting the answer. My point was that
> complaining that the best answer still sucks doesn't help until someone
> comes up with a better answer.
>
>> What I am saying is that burning fossil fuels is *not* a good solution
>> to the problem in the long term (or the short term, for that matter).
>
> I don't think we're disagreeing there. But complaining about a problem
> that everyone in the world would like to solve that nobody has come up
> with a solution for isn't too helpful. People aren't denying that
> burning fossil fuels isn't the best of all possible worlds. People are
> merely denying that something better is feasible.
>
No, all too many of them are arguing worse. That its flat out simply not 
a problem, and every step taken to limit/clean/reduce it is unnecessary. 
If it was merely that its not feasible to get rid of it, we wouldn't be 
having much of a heated discussion on the subject.

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