re: #157 freetoken

First, if you live in the US, by default of how we have structured our lives one’s carbon footprint is not small. Even if you don’t directly use lots of fossil fuels, the support system around you on which you rely does.

Secondly, many of the “solutions” for addressing CO2 emissions just happen to be the same for addressing fossil fuel depletion, a problem manifesting itself today wrt petroleum and will one day in the not too distant future apply to natural gas too. Even coal is limited in supply, though quite large.

So moving energy away from fossil fuel makes sense, as you are going to do it sooner or later anyway.

The idea is to do it “sooner” rather than “later”, so as to limit the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (and carbon soot, too.)

I’ve been living my present lifestyle for almost ten years now…for sure before that I lived large, but personally there is little more that I can do now…anyway I know all the restre: #166 robdouth

I’m still of the belief that the conservative movement is worth saving. It seems around here that since right-wingers have become idiots, that you can throw the baby (conservatism as an idea) out with the bathwater. I’m still a conservative in the mold of Burke or Buckley, but without the calling people names for being gay if they piss me off. Sorry if you see it as poor rationalization, but it seems like a lot of people around here are using any reason no matter how little to just dump on the right, and I see no difference being made between ideological conservatism and the idiots who hijacked the party. Does anyone even acknowledge a difference. Most of these people don’t reach these conclusions because of their strong grounding in conservative principles but because of some warped hybrid of “the family” style religion and some ingrained isms that form some ugly right-wing thing.

okay observation, does not apply to me tho and I’m about as politically conservative as it gets round here