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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Yes - his past actions and words. He denies science.
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If you slander a person's character by making specific claims against them, you'd better back it up with specific evidence.
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Originally Posted by sendler
He does not deny man made climate change. Lomborg simply (and wisely) states that we have much bigger problems that can actually be improved and with much less expense. ie food and water shortages, women's rights/ education/ leading to lower fertility rates, improved health care access, standard of living improvement/ redesign of socio-economic systems to make a more equitable distribution of wealth.
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The far left are eating their own. Bjorn is quite left, and yet still hated by the extremists. It's the whole "emotions are more real than facts" epidemic we're going through. Perhaps we can blame it on Disney and their garbage "always listen to your heart" movies.
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Originally Posted by aerohead
If the Pentagon bought every American family a Tesla it would probably save taxpayers billions in the long run.Part of our $700,000,000,000/year military budget is to protect foreign oil shipments into US port facilities.
Sure,Rome wasn't built in a day,and every day we waste arguing,is just more money down the drain (up in invisible smoke).
Gas is predicted to be $3/gallon by Memorial Day weekend.An 11% increase.
On Memorial Day,the price of a kilowatt-hour will not have changed.
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Oil dependence is hardly the reason we choose to have the most powerful military in the world. There are plenty of net oil importing countries with much lower per capita military spending. The Pentagon makes no money, so cannot buy anyone a Tesla. We can only buy ourselves Teslas, but most people choose not to.
We're not wasting money on oil, rather oil has made us fabulously wealthy and healthy. Without it, the world would not look much different than the 1700s. We certainly wouldn't have the luxury of discussing the issue on the internet, but instead be plowing fields with an ox and the help of our 7 surviving children.
Electricity prices are stable due to regulation of a monopoly, not because it's inherently more stable. Gasoline still delivers much more energy per dollar than electricity, despite the relative volatility of the market.
BTW- The US isn't dependant on foreign oil. We have been a net exporter of oil. It's just that foreign oil is often cheaper than domestic production.
