tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1792004824896769845.post4434679377850354150..comments2023-10-26T10:14:30.017-04:00Comments on "Green is Good": Paul Krugman: "This truth is just too inconvenient"Schultzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15081403187993259643noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1792004824896769845.post-43466602204276503272009-09-28T23:50:03.309-04:002009-09-28T23:50:03.309-04:00If he and his family moved into a solar powered tr...<i>If he and his family moved into a solar powered trailer home would that change anything?</i><br /><br />True. And any shift in my life style would have less effect than anything Gore does as I control far fewer resources. The same could be said for 99.9% of the human race. <br /><br /><br />Going back to this:<br /><br /><i>But it would shuffle the economic deck, hurting some powerful vested interests even as it created new economic opportunities.</i><br /><br />Gore and others are basically asking everybody to take definite losses for uncertain, future gains (or to avoid future losses that won't be seen outside of some model if the plan works). I have very little ability to tell if they are right or not (and a well-founded distrust of running models too far into the future), so I look at how much the leading supporters are willing to 'invest'. Seems a very useful heuristic.MHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1792004824896769845.post-20673693792652604982009-09-28T22:50:26.171-04:002009-09-28T22:50:26.171-04:00What does the size of Al Gore's house have to ...What does the size of Al Gore's house have to do with climate change denial? If he and his family moved into a solar powered trailer home would that change anything? No, it wouldn't, and I'm sure nobody is taking note that since the Gore's purchased the house six years ago they have <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22248699/" rel="nofollow">done a lot to make the mansion more energy efficient.</a>Schultzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15081403187993259643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1792004824896769845.post-21639263988758694112009-09-28T22:34:54.343-04:002009-09-28T22:34:54.343-04:00Gore has more square footage in bathrooms than I h...Gore has more square footage in bathrooms than I have in my whole house. It would be a lot easier to believe there is a crisis if the people pushing the crisis acted like there was one.MHnoreply@blogger.com