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Desalinisation is already economically feasible, and in use, notably in the Middle East. There is no reason to use it in the US yet. If that day comes, it won’t be prohibitively expensive. It’s not as if all the potable water will dry up all at once.
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I think water is just meant as one example. Obviously the situation is very critical; this is why big governments are starting to take action at last; their trusted advisors are telling them “yeah this environment stuff is true, we’re doomed if we don’t get on this yesterday.” Too bad most people haven’t yet woken up to the fact that things are very serious. For the last decade I figured the world was just doomed, maybe even in my lifetime; with all the publicity these days I started to have some hope, but now I wonder if the results won’t be even worse; restrictions on travel of all sorts, restrictions on every sort of sale and purchase and other activity that has any effect of the environment: I’m ringing the bell on the green-nazis now, but it’s not like the other option is any better…
But I’m still sceptical that we’ll even live to see the green-nazi period; look at how much damage in CO2, plastics, rubber, iron, refrigeration, pesticides, deforestation, paved roads and so on goes into just eating an apple!
the sky is falling! the sky is falling!
the world is gonna end! the world is gonna end!
unless you bend over and be a willing communist slave.
better dead than red? sure… but even better a dead red.
-Imp
You know, 301 - I am glad you responded the way you did. It’s a classic - no argument ever satisfies the Global Warming crowd. There is always some unverifiabe and future, possible evil awaiting us.
Governments are taking action - as if that it is “critical” is the only reason they would. Their advisors are saying that it makes good political sense to pay lip service and do nothing - see: Kyoto Accords.
And of course it is too bad that most people haven’t woken up. The Global Warming crowd is just smarter.
I am aware of your views on this issue; if I recall rightly, you live in a small suburb near a sort of Walden Pond; it depends I suppose what we see out our window; I now see row-apartments, an area-boiler with ten smoke-stacks and a ten lane free-way. The only animals you’re gonna see around here now are rats and pigions (when once there were tigers and bears, racoon-dogs and badgers, five kinds of deer, wild boar, two kinds of leopards, three kinds of seal…) Sulpher Dioxide is at 0.15 ppm now, Nitrogen Dioxide is at point-one; it’s a clear day! though there is four times the “safe limit” of Benzine… I’m a good sport, so I volunteered to help clean up the ten-thousand ton oil spill that happened ten or so days back and has now covered the whole west coast…
Things might look nice now overlooking your Walden Pond…
Actually, 301, I live out in the friggin’ woods. It’s not a suburb of anything. I spent most of my life in a faded industrial city. Plenty of smokestacks. Plenty of tenements. Was just back there a couple of days ago. I don’t think anything depends upon what’s in front of our noses as we type posts.
Okay - I’ll admit this much - Maine, where I live, has been trending colder for many years now. Other places are trending warmer. Go figure. The fact is that we have very little information to go on when it comes to longterm climate changes. And I am old enough to remember when everyone was concerned about Global Cooling.
I sure think we can continue to work on pollution. I also know that Global Warming has been a bonanza for research grants. And, for those who want to get and can afford a hybrid automobile, for instance, it’s been a neat and easy way for people to feel good about themsleves, to feel superior to others. Maine is full of this type of person. It’s the new recycling (another scam).
Maybe you should think about moving. Doesn’t sound all that pleasant a way to live.
Thanks, that’s probably good advice. I was thinking to do another 19 months in mega-cities, then move on to “greener pastures.” It’s just-- the money’s good…