In > on Fri, 21 Mar 2008
08:30:29 -0000, in uk.current-events.bird-flu, 'Buddenbrooks' wrote:

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>"Oz" > wrote in message
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>> Also to note that all decaying plant matter emits methane, remember the
>> fuss when they recently discovered vast amounts were being emitted by
>> topsoils worldwide.
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> In an area of Salisbury which had a building estate using an ex-city dump
>there was a sudden need to dig holes to release gas safely. The dump had
>been disused for decades and had been deemed inactive.
>
> I find it astonishing that it is accepted that a super-computer is needed
>to inaccurately predict weather and yet "obvious aint it" is applied to the
>global warming problem.
>
>It will be interesting to see what the coming credit crunch driven downturn
>in the economy does to people's views as jobs disappear and people realize
>that
>keeping the worlds economy going and reducing emissions is not going to be
>easy.

I was going to stay out of it, but 'keeping the worlds economy going' is
the polar opposite of 'reducing emissions'

In fact it's broader than that.

'Keeping the economy going' is, by definition, a maintenance of the
current exponential rate of growth. That growth (almost) by definition
involves a parallel increase in consumption.

Therefore a 'healthy economy', under the current system of values,
desires, and definitions of success, probably has an *automatic* cost WRT
the odds on our survival.

Dave J.