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So how can climate change be made more relevant to people's lives?

By relating the impact of climate change on the lives of peoples children and grandchildren.  The parental instinct is possibly the only factor strong enough to challenge the profit motive.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Oct 26th, 2009 at 05:38:57 PM EST
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A serious proposal to use sustainable energy resources for all purposes by 2030 is published in the latest Scientific American magazine. Lots of wind, no nukes...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030

The comments section has been taken over by very verbose and aggressive (and paid?) trolls, which makes one wonder whether it's actually a practical proposal that threatens the coal, oil, and nuclear industry.

by asdf on Mon Oct 26th, 2009 at 11:43:42 PM EST
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Conflating oil, coal and nuclear does not improve my opinion of your analytical skills, only your rhetorical ones. How about adding natural gas and removing nuclear?

They're completely different concepts. CO2 production, global warming.

God, will the confusion wrought by anti-nukes never end?

Align culture with our nature.

by ormondotvos (ormond no spam lmi net no spam) on Tue Oct 27th, 2009 at 03:34:03 AM EST
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That reply itself is mostly composed of rhetoric.

asdf did not conflate oil, coal and nuclear. He suggested those industries might be paying astroturfers. Is that unthinkable?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Oct 27th, 2009 at 03:55:47 AM EST
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