re: #62 SilentAlfa

a more efficient solution to reducing greenhouse gases would be to reduce the number of people, but that would be a tad unethical. a global campaign to reduce the birth rate through education and contraceptives would probably be more successful at combating emissions than any climate legislation would, or a campaign to study the effects of agw so that the areas that will be hardest hit can prepare.

as it is, any legislation to reduce emissions currently on the table is pretty impracticable, and everybody would kick and scream if gas taxes were raised to reduce the amount people drive. and large numbers of people in america literally don’t want public transportation.

sum: americans and humanity in general doesn’t have the strength of will to do anything about global warming because the medicine tastes too bad

Which is why I advocate that the best, most practicable, and least controversial method of all (except to the absolute GW denialists (AGW or no AGW)), is to promote the growth of a sci-tech industry devoted to greentech and reversing the greenhouse emissions of the past.

I think it’d sell very well to the public on economic-merit alone.