While true its a terrible way to plan for something you know is coming. Do you really wait until retirement to fund your 401k?

So oil goes up as supply dwindles. Now you're stuck with having to invent, produce and deploy alternative sources very quickly. That makes it cost a lot more. Now both parts are expensive.

Instead, start putting a little money aside now and doing the R&D required to get to where we have to be. Start switching over BEFORE it becomes absolutely necessary. And no company is going to do this because it isn't profitable over short time scales. It needs the government subsidizing experiments and new technologies over the span of centuries.

Fortunately we can do this without raising costs at all. How? By using the 10 BILLION a year in subsidies we currently give to the big oil companies.

Switch to another source of electricity? When that happens in 4 BILLION years I suspect nuclear fusion using the most plentiful element in the entire UNIVERSE?

So back to you, what are you going to do when oil runs out in just a century or so?

electric cars, public transportation, buses, rail, etc. All are cheaper than individual ICE powered cars.

Noisy environments would render a clicker pretty useless.

It actually doesn't happen much at all. Anything in the public domain today is there solely because it was created before Disney and other empires started buying laws that suit their interests.

The laws retroactively apply to most creations so even stuff created 'not that recently' continues to reside under copyright lock and key LONG after it would have originally reverted to public domain status.

You wouldn't consider paying a small amount more for gigabit? I certainly would.

So you don't trust doctors and decades of scientific study and results?

OP said "even 1% chance is too high". Clearly implying that *any* risk of death is too much.

Actually the price is that fewer people will then volunteer to go over to Africa and try and stop the spread. Since they can plainly see fear making decisions at home and not want to be subject to that. And when fewer people go to help stop it there it spreads faster and farther and the likelihood that it comes here is now greater.

The Right to 'Not Die' is violated for *everyone*.

The Right to 'Life' is granted, OP is alive. There's no right that says he isn't allowed to die. Life and death happens and there isn't anything that says you are granted the right to not die.

There penalties for causing someone's death but that isn't a right to 'not die'.

and by rational behavior the perfect shouldn't be the enemy of the good. There is a small window but since ebola is quite hard to actually transmit unless the person is actively projectile vomiting etc. that small window of time where they simply have a fever and less than 12 hours until their temperature is checked the risk is not worth the price paid.

Believe it or not we have insurance programs for poor people, even those who can't afford to pay. Why? Because it's cheaper than having vast swaths of disease carriers running around. We treat people regardless of ability to pay.

Might want to check your facts, some flu strains have been pandemics with 30% fatalities.

Sometimes the progress of the human race is astoundingly mind boggling given what we have to work with.

If they are symptomatic, yes you quarantine them. There simply is no risk if they aren't symptomatic.