10-01-2009, 02:18 PM
How much money have we really spent on climate change? Who is benefiting from this spending? Sure certain companies are but are the environmental minded lobbies so much more rich and powerful than the energy companies that the energy companies lobbies couldn't ferret out and disprove such an obnoxious lie?
It seems like if you were going to try and make a buck, convincing the world that the world is warming so that you could move a few solar panels wouldn't be the first thing you'd try. It's fairly ambitious and prohibitively difficult to fight the most powerful organizations and richest governments in the world head on and convince a globe of people that they should overhaul 100 years of energy infrastructure and policy. Talk about a risky investment. What business minded person would tackle that goal in the pursuit of pure profit? It seems like it would take you decades to make any money on that venture if you ever made any at all.
It just doesn't seem plausible as a business model. The people that study this stuff are not motivated by profit as hard as that may be to believe. If all scientists were in it for profit this would not be the way you would try and make money. You'd work for the big energy companies.
Hell even if you were trying to sell technology and research related to the environment or the energy industry, global warming would be the worst angle to push. Health, Pollution, and national security are far better selling points than global warming. So either these climatologists are the craftiest capitalists in the world, really stupid or really convinced that the globe is warming due to anthropogenic causes and are afraid of the consequences.
It seems like if you were going to try and make a buck, convincing the world that the world is warming so that you could move a few solar panels wouldn't be the first thing you'd try. It's fairly ambitious and prohibitively difficult to fight the most powerful organizations and richest governments in the world head on and convince a globe of people that they should overhaul 100 years of energy infrastructure and policy. Talk about a risky investment. What business minded person would tackle that goal in the pursuit of pure profit? It seems like it would take you decades to make any money on that venture if you ever made any at all.
It just doesn't seem plausible as a business model. The people that study this stuff are not motivated by profit as hard as that may be to believe. If all scientists were in it for profit this would not be the way you would try and make money. You'd work for the big energy companies.
Hell even if you were trying to sell technology and research related to the environment or the energy industry, global warming would be the worst angle to push. Health, Pollution, and national security are far better selling points than global warming. So either these climatologists are the craftiest capitalists in the world, really stupid or really convinced that the globe is warming due to anthropogenic causes and are afraid of the consequences.
Caveatum & Blhurr D'Vizhun.
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