The Wall Street Journal ran an article about how some Senators are asking the Oil Industry to stop resisting efforts to curb Global Warming.
The WSJ articles says:
“Every dogma has its day, and we’ve lived long enough to see more than one “consensus” blown apart within a few years of “everyone knowing” it was true. In recent decades environmentalists have been wrong about almost every other apocalyptic claim they’ve made: global famine, overpopulation, natural resource exhaustion, the evils of pesticides, global cooling, and so on. Perhaps it’s useful to have a few folks outside the “consensus” asking questions before we commit several trillion dollars to any problem.”
My frame of mind is that we should increasingly contain emissions into the environment, just in case. Whether it is proven or not, it stands to reason that more and more people dumping waste into our “Commons” is not wise in the long term. And it would be better to get some momentum towards a solution now while the intervention is relatively cheap and incremental rather than to wait for a catastrophe.
Increasingly there seems to be reports that environmental efficiency is also economic efficiency.
Why not be pound wise and penny foolish for a change.
Born 1950, Married, Living in Austin Texas, Semi
Retired Small Business owner and investor. My political interest
evolved out of his business experience that the best decisions come out of an objective gathering of information and a pragmatic consideration of costs and benefits. I am interested in promoting Centrist candidates and Policies. My posts are mostly about people and policies that I believe are part of the solution rather the problem.