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 | | From: | nini_pad at yahoo.com | | Subject: | Re: "State of Fear" Crichton's new book about Global Warming (spoilers) | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 07:06:26 -0800 |
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herothatdied wrote:
> wrote in message
> news:1104603280.783711.36040@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > marko_amnell@hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > But let's get back to the fact that a potboiler author has decided
> > adopt Rush Limbaugh's view on global warming, and ignore the view
of a
> > worldwide consensus of smart people with training in environmental
> > science. It's the same view taken by Senator George Allen of
Virginia,
> > a Presidential wannabe for 2008 who just wrote me a dimwitted
letter in
> > which he claimed that global warming doesn't exist and if it did
the
> > freemarket would take care of it with its amazing ingenuity, so no
> > government need get involved.
> >
> Here's the only cheering thought I can offer on global warming: when
the ice
> caps melt and sea levels rise, Florida will literally disappear.
Drive the
> Durango to Disneyworld while you can.
>
> Those cranks apply the Free Market = Deus Ex Machina meme
> to everything.
It's not a deus ex machina it's a people working together
and solving problems.
> Fuel shortage? NP! Something will be invented just in the
> nick of time to solve the problem and the Free Market will
> provide it to all (the Free Market will also find a way to
> make petroleum not an essential ingredient in the
> fertilizers necessary to farm at the level we do today too,
> presumably, else we're giving away a free Malthus Crisis
> as a bonus with every new Hummer!)
Yes that's exactly what will happen, as it's happened every
time a market economy starts to run out a resource. Economic
laws work. Oil is no different from every other resource
in economic terms.
> And, since necessity is the mother of invention and
> inventions are progress and progress is good, anything
> that's done to forestall the necessity is postponing
> progress, and that's bad. What's more, the invention
> can't already be here
>
(http://www.popsci.com/popsci/generaltech/article/0,20967,714431,00.html)
> because it isn't necessary yet.
Actually it's merely unlikely that it's here.
> If we wait and force a crisis, something better will
> come along, because something always has,
No because the price mechanism causes it to come
allong. The price mechanism works pal. It's always
worked.
> though we
> haven't yet had a crisis per se, but that just means
> that the something that is coming along will be better
> than any of the other somethings that ever came before.
> You follow?
>
> The Free Market giveth and taketh away
> Defining each man by his component greed
> In keeping with principle of Mandeville's
> It wrings out the able accords not his need
> Except for those needs that Fifth Av'nue instills
> Bless'd be the name of Free Market.
>
> htd
>
> ObDecentCrichtonNovel: The Great Train Robbery
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| | From: | htd | | Subject: | Re: "State of Fear" Crichton's new book about Global Warming (spoilers) | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:39:14 GMT |
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> herothatdied wrote:
> > wrote in message
> > news:1104603280.783711.36040@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > > marko_amnell@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > Fuel shortage? NP! Something will be invented just in the
> > nick of time to solve the problem and the Free Market will
> > provide it to all (the Free Market will also find a way to
> > make petroleum not an essential ingredient in the
> > fertilizers necessary to farm at the level we do today too,
> > presumably, else we're giving away a free Malthus Crisis
> > as a bonus with every new Hummer!)
>
> Yes that's exactly what will happen, as it's happened every
> time a market economy starts to run out a resource. Economic
> laws work. Oil is no different from every other resource
> in economic terms.
>
Darlin', we've never globally run out of a resource before, and contrary to
the free market mythos, localized resource depletion does not result in some
happy little easy transition to a new business model: it results, almost
without exception, in a crash in the local economy.
htd
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