re: #86 Obdicut

I’m going to repost a very lucid post from Ming in the last thread.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

This is a key thing. Being anti-AGW, being anti-science, is the largest attack on the foundation of American economic, political, and military power that this nation has ever seen. There is nothing that will doom us as a power more quickly than a lack of scientists, engineers, and the like flowing into this country. We depend on the ‘brain drain’ from other countries.

By tapping into the anti-science streak in the US and nourishing it and channeling it and growing it into a huge flood, the GOP is doing immeasurable harm to the US.

So even if they’re making the cynical ploy that the US can weather climate change better than other nations— which is a stupid, stupid, stupid gamble— they’re dead wrong. We can’t do so while driving away our scientists.

all this has been said over and over til it’s boring…we need solutions, not rehashing the problems again…start with getting nuclear energy online as fast as possible…screw the minnows and butterflies