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You've talked before about the civilizational challenge that climate change poses, how confident are you that the human race is up to meeting that challenge?Dear heavens, the Imperial President should "ban the sale of coal and oil"? Oh, yeah, that's the ticket. Some 40% of US electricity, lots of our industrial energy, and ~ 100% of our transportation fuel comes from coal and oil, so I'm sure that other than the small matter of impoverishment, suffering, death, and economic ruin, banning them wouldn't cause any disruption at all ... while I want to ask "is this Imperious Idiot for real?", the sad truth is that Lester Brown is totally serious.
We don't know and there is no guarantee that we will. But we do know that change can come very quickly. Look how quickly the US restructured its whole economy in 1942. At beginning of 1942, the automobile companies were producing automobiles. By the middle of 1942 they were all producing tanks and planes. It didn't take decades or years, just a few months and they totally converted. If they could do that then, certainly we can restructure the world energy economy today. What Roosevelt did was ban the sale of cars. He didn't say they couldn't produce cars. He just banned the sale of cars.
Would you like to see President Obama do that?
I'd like to see him ban the sale of coal and oil.
Comment: It appears that Lester Brown is an authoritarian follower who is quite happy with the imperious edicts of this administration. Authoritarians are highly submissive to established authority, aggressive in the name of that authority, and conventional to the point of insisting everyone should behave as their authorities decide. Unfortunately, Obama needs little incentive to continue the course of his imperial presidency:
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