Re: Domestic wind turbine

["Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Kevin Ellis <forum_mail@y...> wrote:
>
> The stability you talk about is over billions of years, and I
agree
> life will continue, but that may not be human life!
>

Of all the things that could finish off the human race, I don't
think climate change is one of them.  We're probably the most able
to adapt to it.


> The planet has never had to deal with the excessive increase in
CO2
> levels we have seen over the last 50 years, it will respond, but
we
> cannot predict that response, there are many models, and you have
to
> make your own informed choice as to which one you believe. We are
> simply another species living on this planet, but we have the
biggest
> impact.

Of course we have the biggest impact.  That doesn't mean we have to
feel guilty about it.  We're part of nature too, and if that's how
things have panned out, then that's that.  I'll have no truck with
the self-loathing that often accompanies environmental debates.

>
> I personally believe we should do our best to plan for the future,
if
> the planet does sort itself out and we as a species survive (lets
> hope we do not have a large meteor strike :-) ) then we will need
to
> replace fossil fuel, so lets start doing that now. As others
posters
> have pointed out, one man can make a difference, all the little
> things add up to a lot.
>

I'm not arguing against replacing it - quite the opposite.  I'd much
rather the government concentrated on encouraging research into
replacements than spending so much effort trying to make the last
few drops last a few years longer.

Mal