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...
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...
posted by Winston Smith at
11:20 AM
11 Comments:
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.
What would be cool is for John Kerry to fight for nuclear power in the United States, not just in Iran.
Wait, Bush is finally taking the Kerry line on this, and you're snarking on Kerry?
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.
Silly Rilkefan:
p was asserted by Kerry =df.
p is evil and stupid
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.
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.)
tvd, le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. Roughly translated: you want a pony.
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. :-)
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?
WS, 2 is not a defense on the flip-flop charge, or we might have been listening to President Kerry last night. Ditto 1.
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