Comment Re:they're less agreed on what to do about it (Score 1) 1108
Well, the people on the planet now (including us) did not create the problem. The problem was created a long time ago when it was decided to build our infrastructure based on the use of fossil fuels as the main energy source. At the moment, the idea is to determine what the best course of action is. To me, it seems like the best way to handle the situation is to get as much low hanging fruit as possible (change light bulbs, etc, etc) in the short term. Things like this reduce energy usage and also don't really add an economic cost. In the long term, switching to nuclear power would probably be the best way to go. At some point, fossil fuels will be expensive enough that alternative energy sources will be competitive without any help. The trade-off of this approach is that it does not solve the problem of global warming. We would have to deal with the costs of it later.