re: #358 LudwigVanQuixote

I hear that. I really do. I am not insensitive to the fact that there will be many people in the fossil fuel industry who would be hit by this. That is why they try so hard to propagandize that there is no problem.

It will be even harder on the coal miners.

However, we can’t have a solution to the problem without shifting our primary energy sources.

There is no way to have our cake and eat it too here.

We can look at it like an uber capitalist and say something like the auto industry was hell on those who made buggy whips. A less crass way to look at it is to say that people in these industries probably want their children to have a lifestyle that is equal to or better than what we have now. If nothing is done about AGW, the opposite, by a lot, will happen.

LVQ - I think there will be a slow enough transition that we personally would not be affected.

And I also think there will be a need for fossil fuels and by-products for a very long time to come.