Reply #105: Do post back in ten years, won't you?

[hunter]

When Bush invaded Iraq I was participating on a discussion board where most of the people supported the invasion and they couldn't figure out why I was out on the streets protesting. The consensus there was that the war would be over quickly. I told them it would drag on for years and years, kill hundreds of thousands people and cost billions and maybe trillions of dollars, and that we would eventually have to withdraw as we did in Viet Nam. I haven't been back to that board for a long time, but maybe I'm waiting for us to cut our losses in Iraq and retreat so I can be entirely prescient about the disaster.

But it sucks to be right about something like this.

If you believe we will be able to increase "...the quality of life much more than human-caused climate change could destroy it" by creating "new products" I believe you are tragically mistaken.

The plane we are all riding in is going to crash. The decisions we make soon -- very soon -- will determine if it is a hard crash landing or a soft one. Either way, a lot of us are going to suffer and die.

I figure in ten years you'll be buckled into your seat with the rest of us watching the ground approach with frightful speed, like Mother Nature's Great Fist of Death. If anyone still believes the magic hand of the marketplace will intervene to set us gently down, they will keep that to themselves.