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DemandsRedPill

(65 posts)
1. quit crying wolf
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 08:05 PM
Dec 2014

As an engineer who has spent the last 35 years designing and building and living each day on the renewable energies these guys speak of I am asking them to come down from their exclusive ivory towers and stop making such idiotic statements as "we don't need fossil fuels"

For those well informed and educated on the potential and limitations of renewable energy they essentially are 'crying wolf'

The evidence does not support our getting off of fossil fuels for many many decades if ever

If they want to make their case they need to qualify it by stating the truth

We will continue to need fossil fuel and more and more of it so long as we feel 'we can have our cake and eat it too'

Without drastic and fundamental changes in our lifestyles,our food choices,our homes and how we get around to name just a few the total transition to renewable energy is just a dream

Avoiding the real issues of transition can only lead to that dream becoming a nightmare

Thom Hartmann is one who cries wolf far too often

He is not a lone voice though

Many other 'wolves' howl just as loud and in many cases are paid (fed) in amounts equal to their db level

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quit crying wolf DemandsRedPill Dec 2014 #1
Take your Pill bahrbearian Dec 2014 #2
Thanks DemandsRedPill Dec 2014 #3
Did you watch the vid? Darb Dec 2014 #4
Another 'well thought out response' DemandsRedPill Dec 2014 #6
Where are you? Darb Dec 2014 #5
Good video. Quantess Dec 2014 #7
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