According to ACCCE, if we don't use coal, we'll have to wave goodbye to the American way of life:
Nice way of life. Shame if something happened to it. 7
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Posted 11:27 AM on 31 May 2008
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Wolverine Posted 4:09 am
31 May 2008
Good Riddance!
The American way of life is pure evil. It's based on totally selfish individualism, at the expense of the Earth, other cultures, and other people.
As to the ad itself, it's very vague. Without the identifier at the end, I wouldn't haven known whether the point was that if we're going to use coal at all we need it to stop emitting CO2, or that we need coal. Not a very good piece of propaganda.
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Laurence Aurbach Posted 4:43 am
31 May 2008
failure of common sense
According to that advertisement the American way of life is all about friends, family, cows and horses.
America had all those things before coal. America will have all those things after coal.
Ped Shed Blog
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taylorshelton Posted 3:50 am
01 Jun 2008
oh no
please gag me. This is one of the worst 30 second clips I have ever seen.
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Pangolin Posted 8:01 am
01 Jun 2008
I can't wait.
Just imagine spending a winters evening in a toasty hot tub heated with the excess heat from my combined PV/thermal panels. I can afford the hot tub since the majority of the heating load is taken by my geo-exchange HVAC system and my oversized ground-loop has plenty of heat stored from last summer's cooling. The hot-tub gets the heat dump on sunny days after the shower tank is full and the ground loop is above 55 degrees.
I used the day's sunny weather to bike the two miles to the grocery and I'm ignoring the fact that I had an electric assist back up the hill when I said I deserved a hot tub. Since everybody works four-day weeks to save gas and jobs are mostly full-time (same reason) I had my Friday to clean up the greenhouse, harvest a salad and plant some pea starts.
Beef is a little pricey but there's usually a neighbor that has rabbit, goat or chicken in the freezer they're willing to haggle for. I trade for homemade pickles and salsa since I don't mind canning. The free-range diet, biking and gardening has eliminated the spare tire also.
Yeah, life without coal would suck. Sure it would.
Put the Carbon Back
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sindark Posted 12:27 am
02 Jun 2008
Outcomes
There are a number of possible outcomes here:
- People do nothing, climate change destroys the American way of life.
- People sacrifice the American way of life to stop climate change, people survive but live differently.
- People manage to stop climate change without sacrificing the American way of life.
The question is whether we really want to risk #1 in order to shoot for #3 instead of #2.a sibilant intake of breath
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amazingdrx Posted 12:53 am
02 Jun 2008
Excuse
4. Use curing GHG climate disaster as a justification for switching from quantity of consumption and possesions as a measure of human happiness and fullfillment; to a focus on quality of life.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
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redambrosia99 Posted 1:37 am
02 Jun 2008
boo
Wait, if the American way of life involves horses I've been cheated! I've never had a horse (or even a pony). BOOOOOOO!!! Hisssss! Gimme pony!
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