Financially, because I don’t make enough money to build a pile to give to my kid. He’ll just have to work for it like I did. But I’ll make sure he has the skills to do it.

But that’s not what you meant.

Misguided social engineering exercises have more capacity to harm future generations than my tendecies towards being less efficient.

So there.

And Earl, being more efficient isn’t going to save me a dime, as permits for new power plants are tied up in red tape, ditto for expanding oil production.

The world population is expanding. Keeping energy supplies constricted, while there’s more people and more countries aspiring to get out of their grass huts, is just going to make my quality of life fall.

I’ll keep that in mind when I pull the lever this November.

I’m spending my children’s inheritance!

Best,

D

I’m also willing to change MY behavior to have slightly less effect in my emissions.

But I refuse to do it at the detriment of my standard of living, or because somebody who belives themselves to be morally better, tries to enforce a “managed decline” to western civilization.

Watch what will happen to “environmental concerns” when the electrical generation of power runs out of excess capacity in this country, because we can’t burn coal, too many people are scared of nuclear, wind power kills too many birds, and changes humidity patterns downwind, large-scale solar affects the surrounding ecosystems, etc.

I’ll go out and shoot a polar bear just on principle.

The fact that I still have to burn dead dinosaurs to get from A to B, (in this day and age) offends me slightly, though I am a fan of ICE’s. (Internal Combustion Engines)

Stop blocking alternatives and saying we have to cut back on the ones that are working. Pursue technologies that may get us away from using dead dinosaurs, but keep our capacities in the current technologies, and expand them.

Global warming is happening. but I’m not going to be sitting in an un- airconditioned block of high-density living quarters, taking mass transit to my job, in the off chance that it’s effects can be slowed down. I’ll take my chances in the world that will result.

I’m sitting in my 1800 sq/ft house, on its 100X130′ lot, a/c at 78 F, 8 mi from my place of employment. Take that from me because you “think” you have the answer in artificially increasing the cost of living to force changes in my lifestyle, you’ve lost me (and others like me) to your point of view.

BTW, I did get a science education. I have retained enough of it to realize regulatory restrictions against energy production will decrease my standard of living, and mandating the use of technologies that aren’t mature will not make them come faster.

BTW, there is no point in sending people to re-education camps who never got an education in science in the first place.

We should start prosecutions against anyone who is a denier.

Perhaps they can be sent to re-education camps.