Shooting a dead horse

[itlandm]

The whole "climate policy" debate thing is like a farce to me. NOW this is all the rage, when it is too late. Pretty soon we will all be carbon neutral, because there won't be enough affordable carbon left to burn. I'd say 2020, but perhaps it will be 2030. In any case, this debate should have been 30 years ago to have any meaning

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[itlandm]

I'm not even touching that. I mean the irony of suddenly angsting over global warming after peak oil. It is like promising to diet soon while you're eating the last of the food.

Even if you don't believe in man-made global warming, you still won't be able to continue like before, because oil will be too expensive to burn. Belief only matters when it leads to behavior. In this case, the outcome is the same, no matter what side you take.

[itlandm]

That would be awesome. If it worked. ^_^
Even if not, there would surely come a lot of good science and technology out of it. Just think of the moon landings. We have had no practical use of the moon rocks, except some moon dust that turned out to be great fertilizer. But the technology of that era is driving our society today.