I'm such a geek, I was watching CSPAN book TV. I cannot remember the speaker, but he wasn't too worried about climate change. In fact, he said that the proponents of climate change were a bigger threat to our society than climate change is. Because they want to take our fossil fuels away, and our society is totally dependent upon fossil fuels. Take them away and we have no society as we know it.
That is quite an admission of the vulnerability of our society. If climate change doesn't get us, peak oil will. That is not news to me, but it is interesting to hear it coming from someone else- I don't know if he realizes what he is saying. Yes, if climate change is a mistake or a hoax or whatever, we may get a few more years or decades- but the party is still going to come to an end. And there is no reason to think that we will be better prepared for it then than if it happens sooner. Our fossil fuel use keeps going up and up. We are not making the gains in alternative energy that we need to be, or researching non-fossil fuel options that we need to be. Society is doomed. You heard it from a right winger.
That is the problem with TV. You can't talk back to the speaker, or ask a question. Another speaker was bemoaning the recent fascination of the younger generation and the Democrats with socialisms and saying how it will be the end of society as we know it. I wanted to ask if he thought that we are now attracted to socialism because technology and globalism has diminished the demand for and economic clout of American labor, concentrated wealth, and therefor, while one people could strike to improve their lot, now the only avenue left they have is political.
Alas, no one to say this too. TV is a one-way street.
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