| I don't see anyone trying to inhibit additional research; surely not from the enviro side. What I see is people saying--okay; we've got the research, now let's do something. Not just dither and wring our hands and whine that we don't like change. Act. That's always been America's forte.
Ten or twenty years from now, we will have an enormously different problem than the one we have now, as the CO2 levels continue to rise. How can trying to maintain the level now in the atmosphere be rash?
It's like saying, well, yes, handwashing might cut down on germs and the spread of disease, but germ theory isn't well established yet, and it's (in Kluge's terms) such a drag to enforce it; let's wait another ten or twenty years, examine the question some more. Surely that can't hurt, right? |