Alright, I might be a little late to the party on reading this book, but at least I'm reading it now. All I have to say is I'm blown away by what I'm learning.....greed and stupidity really did get (and still does) the best of us.
So far in my reading on the Climate Change chapter, which takes place in the 60s-80s, I can't believe Nierenberg was able to get the Carbon Dioxide Committee to agree on individually signed chapters presented by natural scientists and economists and then have the balls to push the economists agenda.
Then the fact that:
So that was in '79, boy did they get this wrong. The extreme storms and droughts are causing the country millions of dollars each year and new tech (mostly solar) while steeply getting cheaper year after year still has a hard time because the fossil fuel industry has taken over the country since then - making it extremely difficult for technology to answer our problems of today.
So far in my reading on the Climate Change chapter, which takes place in the 60s-80s, I can't believe Nierenberg was able to get the Carbon Dioxide Committee to agree on individually signed chapters presented by natural scientists and economists and then have the balls to push the economists agenda.
Then the fact that:
Tom Pestorius, senior policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology, said to Nierenberg on giving the report "technology will ultimately be the answer to the problems of providing energy and protecting the envirnoment."
Nierenberg simply ignored climate science in favor of the claims made by economists: treating the symptoms rather than causes would be less expensive, that new technology would solve the problems that might appear so long as government didn't interfere, and that if technology couldn't solve the problems, we could just migrate.
So that was in '79, boy did they get this wrong. The extreme storms and droughts are causing the country millions of dollars each year and new tech (mostly solar) while steeply getting cheaper year after year still has a hard time because the fossil fuel industry has taken over the country since then - making it extremely difficult for technology to answer our problems of today.
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