Comments for 100 months left.... at http://www.adamsmith.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.adamsmith.org Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:09:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/100-months-left....-200808031812/#comment-730 The only thing naive is Worst-all's (might as well attack ad hominem, as these type of arguments are littered throughout his piece) blind faith in market forces to solve the world's woes. Devotion to market forces is one of the reasons we in such a dire state in the last hour, and this type of fundamentalism is last thing we should be relying upon. Technology is part of the solution; reducing consumption is part too. Not sure how that plays out in your limitless growth economy, something mathematically impossible to continue indefinitely, anti-Malthusian logic aside. And these expensive green technologies you quickly dismissed? Well lets level the playing field a bit then. Lets give some of the current $180 billion in global subsidies to the fossil fuel industry to the renewable energy industry, which currently receives only $10 billion. Yes I know renewable energy is much smaller proportionally than the fossil fuels industry, but why would such a mature industry, currently raking in windfall profits (ahhhh unregulated markets:) need subsidy? If you think that just sitting back and letting business carry on as usual, perhaps with even less regulation, is going to prevent us from reaching global tipping points impossible to halt catastrophic climate change then you are the one willing to destroy our civilisation. This laisez-faire attitude dooms future generations. Take your head out of the sand, for the rest of us. - chris Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:44:48 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/100-months-left....-200808031812/#comment-708 All very well, but if it's true, your arguments mean nothing in terms of stopping what will happen to the earth! - Giselle Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:20:47 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/100-months-left....-200808031812/#comment-703 I don't think they could ever enforce their Green New Deal "to tackle ‘triple crunch’ of credit, oil price and climate crises" without the use of extreme force across the world. With the economic gloom, the last thing the general public think about is the CO2 levels and installing a complex world plan; getting food on the plate is seen as more important. If there overall hypothesis is true and in exactly 100 months we will be past the tipping point, unless we conform to their top down Utopian plan (which of course would be implemented perfectly without unforeseen effects), then there is no hope and I'm going to have to be quite cynical about my future life; time to build a bunker somewhere cold and mountainous. - JamesLawson Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:28:12 +0100