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DnD Central / Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
Surely you've seen the reports about the dangerous smog levels in China. They even had to close the factories. Dependence on fossil fuel is no longer humanly or economically viable for rapidly developing nations. How long before we start seeing that in Malaysia and India? It's not the 1960's and flower children anymore, Don. Despite what Mjmsprt40 says about the difficulty in implementing and enforcing regulations governing emissions, it's on tract to being an economic necessity in many parts of the world. Cleaner factories means production doesn't have to come to grinding halt by government order over public health concerns (including death among children, the elderly and the ill.) 
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DnD Central / Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
It's not about winning or losing. It's about clearing a path to the future and fossil fuels aren't it. As I noted, we're gaining 4500 direct jobs from building electric cars here. You already know about the new Tesla plant. We're rebuilding America's industrial base and cleaning up the environment at simultaneously. Let's bring back the good paying blue collar jobs and create an economy built something other than calling customer service bitching about nonsense, fake smiling at each other at Walmart while putting Chinese made products on the shelf, etc. I told you this capitalist and rebuilding the economy. I see little reason for the sad face.
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DnD Central / Re: Why trains don't catch on here in the "ex-colonies".
Quote from: mjmsprt40 on
China doesn't have a lot of cars

Don't they? For Oct 2015, the Chinese auto market was larger than that of the US by of over 400,000. It is true that per capita they have fewer cars than the US (itself a larger marker than Western Europe, new EU countries and Russia combined.) You might say "Or a lot of people that could afford a car", owing to the country's population there well could be as many people that can afford car there as here.

A slightly interesting note on China's economy. I read an analysis that China is actually the world's first mature fascist country. The leaders are communist in name only.
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DnD Central / Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
I'd like to note that Faraday is building an electric car factory here in 2017, employing 4500 people. :yes: The third industrial revolution is happening if the petroleum industry and their GOP/TP puppets allies like it or not. Further, we have corporations slowly implementing generating (or planning to) their own renewal energy supplies. Meanwhile, the cost and difficulty of extracting fossil fossils is not getting any easier. This like the beginning of the end of horse and buggy industry as automobile production was gearing up to replace them. Would have been smarter to buy shares in Henry Ford's factory or in horse and buggy plant at the time? ;)
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DnD Central / Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
So environmental regulations are impossible to implement and enforce, despite the fact they've been enforced before. Is that right?

Anyway back to avalanche metaphor for a moment. A skier decides to go off-trail and down a too steep run with too loosely packed snow. An avalanche ensues. Given that under those conditions an avalanche might have occurred anyway naturally, is it reasonable to assume he didn't cause the disaster? Should he have choose a more prudent course?

It doesn't seem impossible for humans to even cause tornadoes, which is Why tornadoes and hailstorms are more common during the workweek. One human can't, but a million commuters can. Maybe not thinking on the larger scale is part of the problem. None of us here will cause climate change by ourselves. But seven billion humans contributing to CO2 emissions can. Nor is the first time in the planet's geologic history that animals and planets have changed the climate. If anaerobic bacteria could pump oxygen into the atmosphere (the original climate change when the Earth was young) by exhaling O2 as waste product, why can't humans also change the climate by emitting CO2 as a waste product? You guys like to point out the climate has changed naturally in the past,but what you're failing to considers is there's a reason every time.