[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')epresentative Joe Barton, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, challenged global warming science as "uneven and evolving".

"You're not just off a little, you're totally wrong," he said of Mr Gore's conclusions that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming.

Mr Barton said freezing carbon emissions would harm Americans and lead to "no new industry, no new people and no new cars".

Source: BBC

[Eli]

Twilight this is why it will be business as usual until it cannot physically be business as usual.

We are on a train with no breaks heading for a cliff and we are stepping on the throttle.

Welcome to the mega crash.

[The_Toecutter]

Why would the politicians and corporations want to move to a sustainable society when the Mad Max scenario and dieoff would generate so much money and initially allow for so much control over large groups of people?

There is a conflict of interest here: the elite of society versus the other 99%. One wants Mad Max so they can keep making more money than they will ever use while the other wants ecotopia once they understand the implications of oil depletion.

Industry profits or the lives and welfare of the vast majority of the world's population? Society's leaders have already made the choice for everyone else, all to earn some extra bucks.

[perdition79]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'I')gnore the environmental aspect.

Since carbon emissions = energy use, let me enhance that for clarity:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Mr Barton said freezing energy consumption would harm Americans and lead to "no new industry, no new people and no new cars".

[seldom_seen]

Without fuel they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear.