tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post8096273446902072698..comments2023-12-05T07:50:19.855-05:00Comments on No Oil for Pacifists: QOTD@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-27415322907558189302009-02-27T09:46:00.000-05:002009-02-27T09:46:00.000-05:00P.S. The problem is, this is a problem in economic...P.S. The problem is, this is a problem in economics, not environment, yet Mr. Lomborg is weighing in on it in a manner suggesting his lack of understanding of how economics already attacks and solves this problem, and doing so in a way which reveals his underlying still-liberal prejudices for how to solve problems.<BR/><BR/>Smart he may be. Wise enough to know the limits of his understanding he is not.OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-12591345192587843672009-02-27T09:42:00.000-05:002009-02-27T09:42:00.000-05:00> and a lot of smart people favor pump-priming....> and a lot of smart people favor pump-priming.<BR/><BR/>And I will note here that "smart" and "wise" aren't even vaguely connected qualities of the human brain.<BR/><BR/>Many not-so-smart people are quite wise, and the college professorship rolls are filled with people who are smart but not wise.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>What we need is more wisdom, not more smarts.</B>OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-54238148234144171932009-02-25T04:44:00.000-05:002009-02-25T04:44:00.000-05:00This is just flat out stupid.This whole problem wo...This is just flat out stupid.<BR/><BR/>This whole problem would disappear (assuming it's a problem at all, which I doubt -- <I>but assuming...</I>) entirely if we produced a standardized nuclear reactor design pattern and licensed it reasonably cheaply to China and India.<BR/><BR/>Design it correctly and there won't be any REASON to be using coal. <BR/><BR/>Coal is (admittedly) filthy -- it produces smog, soot, a HUGE amount of toxic sludge if you use scrubbers, and does whatever it actually does to contribute to so-called "Global Warming".<BR/><BR/>Nukes can be made small, compact, VERY safe, and the waste products for a single *huge* multi-gigawatt powerplant created in a year could <I>fit under your dining room table</I>.<BR/><BR/>It's just flat-out stupid.<BR/><BR/>The solution is there, even IF we agree that AGW is a problem.<BR/><BR/>Someone just shoot all the damned 80yo antinuke hippies in the back of the head, so we can get on with building a future. <BR/><BR/>Euthanasia has its possibilities.OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.com