Sunday, January 29, 2006

How to Destroy Our Descendants

Um, lessee...there's a good chance that our oil's about to run out, the experts fear that global warming is rapidly reaching a tipping point, and our dependence on oil costs us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives by keeping us entangled in the Middle East... There seems to be just about enough oil left that, if we keep burning it up at the current preposterous rate, we can irrevocably screw up the climate.

If only there were a solution to any of these problems...or better yet, some magical, unimaginable solution to all of them! But what could it be?

Kevin Drum's got a wee suggestion for a few smalls steps in the right direction...

11 Comments:

Blogger rilkefan said...

I'm alright, Jack. And my kids will be smart, they'll land on their feet. And hopefully I'll be outta here before the grandkids arrive.

12:54 PM  
Blogger Tom Van Dyke said...

What would be cool is for John Kerry to fight for nuclear power in the United States, not just in Iran.

7:20 PM  
Blogger rilkefan said...

Wait, Bush is finally taking the Kerry line on this, and you're snarking on Kerry?

2:07 AM  
Blogger Tom Van Dyke said...

I do not believe Iran is pursuing nuclear power for peaceful purposes. I do not believe the administration is pursuing the "Kerry line." At least I hope not, because it is dangerously naive. If they are giving it lip service, it's to call Ahmadinejad's bluff and show him for the madman he is.

7:47 AM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

Silly Rilkefan:

p was asserted by Kerry =df.
p is evil and stupid

10:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought the whole purpose of Kerry's plan was to call their bluff and determine if they were only in it for nuke power, as they claimed.

12:10 PM  
Blogger Tom Van Dyke said...

Actually, it's the "Russia line."

We've been down this road before with North Korea, peace in our time. If you believe that Iran will honor the deal, google "Ahmadinejad" and "mahdi" first. (Skip the newsmax-type stuff and find his speech to the UN.)

5:11 PM  
Blogger rilkefan said...

tvd, le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. Roughly translated: you want a pony.

5:16 PM  
Blogger Tom Van Dyke said...

Sometimes the enemy of the good is
bad. Sometimes the friend of the bad is the one who thinks it's not so bad. (Kerry on Iran, no doubt me on Bush.)

Good one, tho, rilke. :-)

7:08 PM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

I'm lost...

That it's the Russia line doesn't mean it isn't the Kerry line, nor that it isn't the Bush line.

The original point was that Kerry recommended a certain policy and was ridiculed for it by the Bushies, but now the Bushies seem to have adopted the same policy.

So it seems that the only way to defend the Bushies here (against the charge of politically-driven spitefulness, stupidity, and/or flip-floppiness) is to argue that:

1. The policies are not, in fact, the same

or

2. New facts have emerged that make a policy that was formerly irrational now rational.

Right?

10:18 AM  
Blogger rilkefan said...

WS, 2 is not a defense on the flip-flop charge, or we might have been listening to President Kerry last night. Ditto 1.

12:34 PM  

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