"Josh Hill"  wrote in message
news:f29ds2dgj52jghf136opnh3br60k8r5pjk{at}4ax.com...
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:18:38 -0600, "Dennis \(Icarus\)"
>  wrote:
>
> >"Josh Hill"  wrote in message
> >news:uu0ds25e33vl7qk3ng1t0a03afasb2vt57{at}4ax.com...
> >> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 08:12:03 -0600, "Dennis \(Icarus\)"
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> >
> >> >There are folks trying to do something. Heck, there are
folks trying
to
> >> >establish a wind farm off Nantucket and they're running
into all kinds
of
> >> >resistance.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, individual measures aren't enough. Warming requires --
> >> and can be solved by -- action by the government. The fact that the
> >> government has refused to act is IMO one of the great crimes of our
> >> time. They are quite literally selling the future of our planet.
> >
> >I think that this problem could be solved better by people.
> >After all, if the people disagree with action taken by the government,
then
> >those folks seeking re-election could find themselves out on their
keester,
> >and the action then reversed.
> >
> >Businesses don't like losing customers. A competitor, turning it into a
> >marketing advantage.....
>
> If this were an issue that could be solved through incremental action,
> I might agree with you, but we have delayed so long that if we are to
> avoid extraordinary costs, we have to act with great rapidity and
> great efficiency, taking advantage of all the most economical and
> practical means to reduce warming.
>
> Too many people don't read the newspaper, or are taken in for a time
> by industry propaganda. The public does catch on eventually, but we
> don't have time for Al Gore to bore everyone in the country. And
> people just don't know what the possibilities and options are. No one
> has the time to research all the choices that have to be made, even
> when there is a choice -- and frequently there isn't, not in the time
> frame in which we need it.

I am tickled by the thought of government being capable of great rapidity
and efficiency.
:-)


Dennis


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