Comments on: Quote of the Day

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:23:51 +0000

I think a 1000 new nuclear power plants is an estimable goal. One that the US should pursue chop-chop.

By: JoseAngel

JoseAngel — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:30:36 +0000

People in developed nations take for granted electricity, telephone, internet, cars and gasoline and a good job and a nice retirement plan. Since they don´t need to worry about that, they worry about their environment and the future of the planet.
People in developing nations worry about having a job, any job, so they can at the very least pay the electricity, telephone and survive for the following month. Having a little four cylinder car is luxurious enough already. Worrying about the environment is elitist.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:23:56 +0000

I think that in the larger picture people in developing countries will prefer not to squander life-giving investment capital on bullshit environmental schemes whose main purpose is to make western elitists feel good.

By: joseph hill

joseph hill — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:08:42 +0000

emissions change for the better might indeed be very small. Now lets talk gas. As India and China continue to develop and expand, more and more of their citizens will be able to buy cars. It is happening now and is going to proceed rapidly. Take China. With zillions of cars using zillions of gallons of gas, you can ignore emmissions and ask where the fuel is going to come from. But people that seem anti-environmentalist are ut to dismiss concerns but in so doing seem too often to dismiss the larger picture.