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A trip to the Land of Strained Analogies
More blather about sacrifice from pundits who don't really care about climate change |
Adam Stein |
05 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I see the pundits are still lobbing up chinstrokers about how addressing climate change is going to require 'sacrifice -- serious wartime sacrifice.' This sounds Very Serious. The only quibble I have is that it's probably not true. 'Going green' in a carbon-constrained economy won't feel like sacrifice to most people. It will feel like shopping. Meaning, it will feel like all the decisions we make every day, but tilted imperceptibly by the price ramifications of a carb ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, tech (all these topics) |
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