Provocative? These woke people are complete morons by any yardstick. I am just trying to figure out how anybody could believe this non-sense. — synthesis
It is a strange world we live in where the Bill of Rights is a pipe dream and a fantasy. — James Riley
Come on, you are being intentionally dense. — T Clark
Say what you will. Costs for renewable and associated energy technologies; wind, solar, batteries; are approaching or surpassing those for fossil fuels. Most of this improvement has taken place in the last decade. Given the attention they are getting, I would expect things to continue to improve. Elon Musk and similar businessmen are kicking ass. You need to find someone like him to put a few billion down on your magma technology. The market.
Magma energy sidesteps all this by transcending the calculus of limits to growth. Because (I confidently predict that) magma energy is more than sufficient to meet our energy needs, it allows us to attack the problem from the supply side
— counterpunch
I'm skeptical. Your confidence is not enough to change the course of energy policy. As I wrote before though, I do endorse your "Screw the libs, give them what they want" strategy. — T Clark
Interesting thoughts, but everything you say takes planning, foresight and thought. The right and capitalism are not famous for thought. They like invisible hands and laissez-faire. — James Riley
If you want long-range strategic planning, you have to go out further than the next quarter returns and a fiduciary duty to wedge your head up shareholder's butts. For that, talk to progressives and the left. The sooner you pull them in, the less push-back there will be and the less chance they will haul out lady razor for the next close shave. — James Riley
racism, sexism and other nasty aspects of human life. — Manuel
Those are the more extreme aspects of it, sure. — Manuel
Being "pretty sure it won't work" doesn't constitute a response to the merits of my proposition. — James Riley
I do not accept that. — counterpunch
Further, gender dysphoria is classified as a mental disorder in the DSMV-5; a mental condition the mainstream woke inculcate in primary school aged children! — counterpunch
Pandering to political correctness to avoid accusations of racism, sexism or whatever, gives mainstream space to extremists. Or do you endorse all this in the name of woke-ism? — counterpunch
extreme woke stuff, like pointing out 50 genders... — Manuel
ou're proposing a radical change in American federal and state policing and gun policy which you have acknowledged will lead to many deaths. The burden of proof that it will succeed rests with you. — T Clark
Then you associate all aspects of "woke culture" with the most extreme elements. Under than definition, all of it is extreme. — Manuel
The molten interior of the earth is the nearest large source of energy available, and harnessing that energy would generate such great wealth, that we could afford sustainability. — counterpunch
I'm good with geo heat. But the part about 10 to 12 billion turns me off. Even if your approach could sate their desires, without the giant sucking sound of Earth into their gaping maw, there is the issue of space. If you could promise to reserve for me some elbow room, like 10k square miles of untrammeled wilderness, every other chunk, then I'd be good with it. Oh, and maximum biodiversity. — James Riley
how can I put this, the burden of responsibilities to achieve a non discriminatory culture are not evenly distributed by an hysterically dictatorial victim-oppressor, identity politics paradigm. It divides people by identity, and creates antagonisms between them to exploit for political advantage. — counterpunch
The very fact that you seek to wash your hands of "more extreme elements" even after I've shown them taking hold in the public sector, in education and the NHS, demonstrates the problem. — counterpunch
desalinate water to irrigate land, — counterpunch
developing wastelands. — counterpunch
Regarding push back, the analogy I like to use is this: If you are unjustly kicking a man when he is down, and then you quit kicking for whatever reason (forced to quit or voluntarily quit), you simply cannot expect the man to get up, brush himself off and say "Why thank kind Sir, for stopping that brutal kicking!" — James Riley
I don't accept your analogy. It doesn't refer to anything real. — counterpunch
the woke ignore the fact that slavery was practiced all around the world since the dawn of time until western civilisation developed the philosophy, politics and economics to allow for individual freedom. — counterpunch
I tried talking to Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg about solving climate change with magma energy... — counterpunch
Have you actually extensively researched the viability of geothermal? If so, can you point me to some papers, as most of what I have been able to find suggests that it's suitability is quite geographically limited. — Janus
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