Posted on 07/11/2008 3:47:47 PM PDT by Saint X
According to one energy security expert, unless prosperity exists people simply will not care about climate change. Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, said on July 11 that the poor have other priorities than global warming.
“They [poor people] could not give a damn about climate change because they want 24 hours a day light,” said Luft who cited the example of people living in slums outside Bangalore, India.
“In India alone, 600 million people are not connected even to the [power] grid,” said Luft, “When you talk to these people all you have to do is drive 10 minutes from the center of Bangalore to the slums there and ask them about climate change. And they’ll tell you: ‘We want electricity, we want it today, we want it cheap, we don’t care how you make it.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at businessandmedia.org ...
I don't either.
Those of us in the middle class feel about the same.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It took something called an “Institute of Analysis” to figure this out-??? Like a 5th grader couldn’t figure this out.
Or much of anything other than not remaining in poverty.
Probably don’t care much for brie either.
I’m relatively well-off — and I don’t give a damn either.
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About the only people who DO “give a damn” are those who make a living off of Algore’s “global warming” hoax by working in the Big “Green” industry.
Gore is fine with building all the power plants you want to build. He just wants his cut.
Well said!
Katie Couric once lamented that global warming was becoming a liberal or elitist issue, and was sad about that. She said the fate of the planet affects us all, yadda, yadda, yadda, and it’s too bad it’s become just another political issue.
Al Gore says it’s a “moral issue”. My question to Al Gore is, how can you impose morality on us?
On issues such as marriage and abortion, we’re told that you can’t legislate morality, and that we shouldn’t be imposing a moral standard on people. But Al Gore wants to impose what he calls a moral issue on all of us.
Why are liberals allowed to call something a moral issue and get away with it, but conservatives are told that we can’t be talking about the issues in moral terms?
About how it always works.
Worry about ‘climate change’ is a product of a wealthy society.
All the while, Al Gore and the very rich worry endlessly about global warming as they use 20 times the average amount of electricity in just one of their many homes and dump tons of CO2 in the air with their private jets and limos.
I’m doing ok. I’m not rich but I’m not poor...and I don’t care either. If it gets cold I’ll put on a jacket. If it’s warm I’ll wear shorts. It water starts to rise...I’ll build higher........
They don’t care about gas prices, either. When they get bored or don’t feel like cooking, they drive.
You just don’t get it.
Global Warming is a moral issue. Abortion is a “moral” issue.
Get it now?
Like... him, there on the 5th row, left side, picking his nose. He's been here for 4 years and starting to grow a beard, but HE could figure it out.
/johnny
We could make their electricity with good clean American coal.
That's a good question. The left calls us "wingnuts" anytime we bring up moral issues but they always get a pass.
I'm just glad that civilization has evolved enough that, when spooky people have a problem with the weather, they've come to the conclusion that selling "carbon credits" is a better (and a lot more profitable) method to appease the weather gods than the old method of performing human sacrifices.
I think it’s more than that. It’s almost like a religion.
Can you imagine the NYT's printing that above the fold !!!
OMG, this conference is put on by these freaking retarded moon bats Science in the Public Interest
CSPI is a pro-regulation group that often attacks businesses over food issues.
Popcorn, Mexican food, Trans fat, Dove Ice Cream, Cheesecake, etc.
The organization was putting on its fourth national Integrity in Science Conference co-sponsored by a number of liberal organizations and publications including Mother Jones, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Earthjustice and the Center for Progressive Reform.
Putting the words "Integrity in Science" in the same sentence as these clowns should be a crime
Oh, global warming IS a religion. Or more precisely, "environmentalism" is a religion. The best kind, the only kind a really true lefty accepts -- because he himself is his own god. And the reason it's okay to introduce the M word (morality) about it, is because it involves YOUR money, not THEIR sex. Anything with a deviant sexual component --- homosexuality, infidelity, abortion --- well, now, that's off limits for discussion.
Guess I’m poverty-stricken.
But, but, but, aren't RATS always looking out for the little people?
Only during the election year.
Common sense isn’t so common.
And I’ve always noted that the people who wail the most about GW are the rich, who apparently have too much free time since they don’t have to work a thirty-hour week for a living.
Or what price Whole Foods is selling arugula for.
Absolutely not!
By that time the government brain laundry has reduced their thinking power to a vacuum and that of a parrot!
What warming?
Global Warming is something that makes people with too much time on their hands feel self important.
Somehow, they think they can make a difference, when in reality they are powerless to change their circumstance. Good intentions are the opiate they crave, but they spend their time trying to administer their Global Warming drug on others, hoping for some sort of redemption to alleviate their insignificance.
But surely those people are happy to sit in the dark so Al Gore can fly around in his private jet while his house consumes 20 times the energy of the average American home?
After all his message is SO important...
to his bank account, that is..
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