Kinda weird for a group that seems to resent even the discovery of fire:
Wounded Bear (5,273 posts)
On burning fossil fuels...
If you really think about it, 'modern' use of fossil fuels is really just the same old thing people have been doing for thousands of years, burning something to release the chemical energy it contains, while releasing all manner of toxic fumes and pollutants. From that perspective, we haven't improved much from when the first cave men ran over and grabbed the burning shards of a tree struck by lightning.
The technology of how we do the burning has changed, and the choice of fuels has changed, but really it's the same old shit. Most of the 'improvements' have been more for economic reasons, and thus have usually been the simplest and least expensive of changes, not the most efficient and certainly not the most creative.
We need to get on renewables, and quickly. Frankly, there is technology out there that would do most of that, but we don't for 'economic' reasons, which is to say, that the large powerful interests in fossil fuels won't let us do anything on a meaningful basis.
http://sutz12.blogspot.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025037185Reimagine the tale of Prometheus wherein the titan brings fire to humanity and, rather than be chained to a mountain to have his liver torn from him each morning by an eagle, he faces a deluge of environmental activists protesting his action, EPA regulations and harassing lawsuits.
The people who have turned pseudo-science into a cult so as to excommunicate dissenters as heretics want you to ignore real science, i.e. chemistry and condemn your child's 6th grade Bunsen burner as a relic of damnable heritage.
For people who call themselves progressives they hate the world that has allowed us to conquer rotted food, create mass transportation, medicine and industries that have lifted humanity from scratching out subsistence-level existences.
