re: #63 Obdicut

The thing is, you could use the same line of logic to prove that humans couldn’t have done things that they have demonstrably actually done.

Well, I disagree, but don’t have the time now to elaborate. Other large projects in modern America have and relatively near term economic (and thus political) payoff, from the TVA to space program, to the institution of public school systems, etc. All took political capital to accomplish, but all good produce changes in peoples’ lives within a few years.

AGW also suffers from the (occasionally contentious) issues of “the commons”, and here we have to deal not only with time but the spatial boundaries.

I need to run now… but I will return to this later.