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Originally Posted by dd74
That is what I'm saying. We can correct some of the ills done to our planet through changes in our lifestyles, particularly with transportation. With terrorism, we can change that as well, but not by throwing over 3 trillion dollars and 4,000 American lives at a false-positive effort that reflects this country as repugnantly self-absorbed.
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How many terrorist attacks have we had in the USA since 2002? Seems like that is a stat that would be easy to track.
If you really want to get off topic, AIDS is 100% preventable by controlling behavior.
We are wasting our time and an idiotically huge amount of cash and resources on something that can be prevented in practically every single case and should not invest ANYTHING into curing it, since the money is much more efficiently used in prevention. It is a waste and reprehensible when you think of all the people you could feed with that money.
Here in Kalifornia, incandescent lights will be illegal soon, a sacrifice at the Altar of Global Warming. How much is that going to cost in increased health costs, more or less than we save in electricity, and will it be worth it to the people with direct, adverse effects from this change?
Before going into Iraq and Afghanistan, we went over all the available intelligence from around the world, had both houses of Congress vote on it, then made a move. You don't believe it, but this was something that was done after careful consideration, but with your perfect hindsight vision, you know it was the wrong thing to do. How many years after we made this move did it become crystal clear in your hindsight mirror?
Certainly we can have an impact on our carbon emmissions, but how much will it hurt our economy and help our climate? Keep in mind that 1/4 of the world population, or whatever China is, will be making no effort at all to reduce their carbon emmissions, neither will India.
Oh, and dd74, you need to sell all your cars and stop using electricity completely, you really need to reduce your carbon footprint before you start pointing fingers at anybody.