Oh, for pitys sake! The really-big-deal climate agreement announcement with China includes a big ol silly, bound-to-fail carbon capture and sequestration boondoggle. It will be done in China because the idiot American coal companies turned down billions of dollars in corporate welfare to try it here. Instead, well partner on the 21st centurys equivalent of the huckster alchemists search for the Philosophers Stone and the Universal Solvent. Meanwhile, the sun continues to provide our planet with all the energy our planet will EVER need, the wind blows and the tides advance and recede. But thats no fun, because corporations immersed to their filthy eyes in the blood of generations of human beings havent any interest in energy that doesnt require wholesale exploitation and destruction. This is the Obama Administration telling the world Gosh! If we can just figure out a way to cram the carbon under the bed, we can keep on poisoning hillbillies and all kinds of other poor people! Kewl! Sooner or later, and probably waaaaaay too late, were going to,figure out that the only answer is to stop burning hydrocarbons. If we cant collectively reach that conclusion, Nature will reach it for us. Even the sociopath Koch Brothers wont be able to escape that. What will they do? Run attack ads against Physics? Accuse Chemistry of being Liberal and Kenyan and Black? Capitalism is going to be the end of ALL of us because it rewards the greedy and the stupid. P.S. Threats to impeach President Obama over this in 3 . . . 2 . . . m.motherjones/environment/2014/11/obama-just-announced-historic-climate-deal-china
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 04:38:52 +0000