<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>The projections of what will happen economically</span></div><div><span>without massive nuclear energy development is</span></div><div><span>not pretty. Even if that effort began immediately</span></div><div><span>it is not clear it could happen fast enough.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Dennis May</span></div><div> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Keith Henson
<hkeithhenson@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:56 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change<br></font><br>I have harped on this in the past.<br><br>To whatever extent human activity is warming the earth, *it doesn't<br>matter* especially to the extent that warming, or "climate change" is<br>being caused by carbon dioxide buildup.<br><br>The far more important matter is to replace fossil fuels with a less<br>expensive energy source. Failing to so that will damn us to poverty<br>and for much of the world, starvation.<br><br>As a side effect, that will stop the buildup of CO2 because "less<br>expensive" leaves out fossil fuels. We still may be burning<br>hydrocarbons, but they will be carbon neutral, made from CO2 out
of<br>the air. We could even make synthetic oil to put back in the ground<br>if energy was inexpensive enough.<br><br>But people get hung up on arguing about trivia that just doesn't<br>matter. If we don't solve the energy problem with a SBSP,<br>StratoSolar, nuclear, or something I don't yet know about, then we are<br>in a world of hurt sooner and of far more serious consequence than hot<br>summers and Texas fires.<br><br>Keith<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>