"If your driverless car is about to crash into a bus, should it veer off a bridge? "
sounds like a good solution to the Kobayashi Maru test
Methinks that in a decade or two some natural process will start to decrease carbon levels and then those people put in charge of whatever-crackpot-carbon-saving scheme now will be able to do an I-told-you-so then. When, really, everything we did made zero difference whatsoever.
Maybe bu,t oil and coal are still non-renewable energy sources, much of which we currently rely on from foreign nations. Consider, that if the U.S. becomes more energy efficient but can acquire more domestic oil, it could potentially export that oil and make more profits...something even the oil barons could appreciate
'Future generations' is an abstract idea that completely worthless from our perspective, we will never meet them, we will never know if they even will exist or not
LOL. Are you suggesting that human procreation isn't a fact of existence? Isn't the fact that you are here evidence that there were past generations?...Oh right, you probably never met your great-great-great grandma so how do you know she existed?
it is really not our problem what challenges they will face as time progresses.
nice. Of course, you won't be around when they point the finger back to your generation and say 'this is all your fault' so, why should you care.
If today we turn the clock back to technologies that are supposedly 'green' and we end up stifling the progress and innovation that allows us to use more energy and thus provides us with higher standard of living, creating more wealth...
In other words, "we should continue to rely on oil just to support the existing holders and controllers of wealth in the nation." Newflash: oil and coal are not renewable energy sources. Most alternatives to oil and coal are cleaner alternatives. Even nuclear technology is improving in regards to quantity of waste material and ease of waste management. Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, batteries...are show progress and some promise as future alternatives.
and encouraging its citizens to move elsewhere.
That may be true for the porn industry in California because of a recent law that requires all pornstars to wear condoms for all sex.
"Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!" - Ben Jonson
