Boom. And Bloom?

[disturbed_kiwi]

Oh come ON, you what?!
Big Circle is the Cop Station, Small Circle is where I work.I've been thinking about the advice to not take on board the various financial burdens suggested to deal with Global Warming. The argument appears to be, it'll cause economic hardship and should thus be delayed or worked in very slowly

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[labellementeuse]

In re: the economic burden thing. The difference between global warming and speeding is that with speeding, you get burdened - fined - if you do the wrong thing, whereas with global warming/environment, there are two different tacks. One is the one where, say, you're a business and you pollute and you get fined - that's the same model as speeding. But the other option is where you take the more responsible mode of finding somewhere proper to dump your pollutant chemicals - which still costs you money, so either way as a business you get fined. And on an individual scale it's mostly the second model. When the individual chooses to buy the more expensive, but better, detergent, and fair-trade coffee, and whatever, they're undertaking an extra cost

[disturbed_kiwi]

So, just to summarise, make sureI'm getting you're point:
Doing the right thing costs more and so could be seen as being fined also. Poorer participants might not get the choice to pay more to do the right thing anyway.

Alright, that is fair.

I do think that that is a different argument to the one usually put forward to get out of things like Kyoto though, which is just that it would be a burden, not that we can't afford the different burden of 'doing the right thing' as applies to whatever the circumstances are.

[building7]

Martin Luther is likely rolling in his grave about carbon credits, they're nothing more than re-branded church indulgences.

Also, research advice is "use wikipedia and google"? That doesn't bode well.

[disturbed_kiwi]

If it was research, not too worried, clearly just not a techie, but this is to find out the form of the assignment. After two weeks of no contact.

MuthaF...

[evilgrin]

Don’t be so bloody minded, google knows everything. Oh except someone tore out the pages on the Chinese Democratic movement (see what I did there) , but that’s ok. Because I don’t care about those little yellow men, as long as they make the right skate shoes in the right size and color im fine with what ever goes on over there.

As for Wikipedia, it has extensive amounts of information on say …. Mike Patton (which is great) but not much on someone like say Paul Wolfowitz ....

Who is more important, Paul Wolfowitz or Mike Patton.

Actually don’t answer that.

[gioiaverdi]

Being fair, Wikipedia may be a crap source for academic research but it's usually a great launch pad for research with links to good sources.

Google is an index, and better than most indexes on the web.

I do agree that you shouldn't have to look at either of them to explain the form of an assignment, however, and that an extramural course should either contain all the required material, or set out how and where to find that required material within it.