Comments on: Carbon Capture: Solution or Scam?

By: Business Factory » Polar Bears or a Clean Energy Economy: What can make us Great?

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:25:54 +0000

[...] board—this could mean making compromises from our current energy policy preferences. For example, maybe we do need carbon capture and storage as part of our investment portfolio. Maybe the mitigation challenge is too great for cap-and-trade alone to regulate [...]

By: Function Will Dictate Form « Breakthrough Generation

Function Will Dictate Form « Breakthrough Generation — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:08:08 +0000

[...] current social trends in this country and around the world. Time and again, I have seen people on sites like itsgettinghotinhere bemoaning the “capitalization” of our society, where everything from our minutes to our muscles to our ideas has a worth and a price in dollars [...]

By: Shelton

Shelton — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:55:11 +0000

Sorry folks but nuclear IS the ONLY way.

By: Polar Bears or a Clean Energy Economy: What can make us Great? « A Zemel Blog

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:10:55 +0000

By: Polar Bears or a Clean Energy Economy: What can make us Great? « Breakthrough Generation

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:56:21 +0000

[...] could mean making compromises from our current energy policy preferences. For example, maybe we do need carbon capture and storage as part of our investment portfolio. Maybe the mitigation challenge is too great for cap-and-trade alone to regulate [...]

By: Good versus Great: Saving the Earth, and the Antagonism of Standards. « Breakthrough Generation

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:34:42 +0000

[...] Isn’t it possible that we’ll need the good, or the “questionable but okay,” like carbon capture and sequestration, as well as the great, in order to [...]

By: Blogging about the blogosphere… « Breakthrough Generation

Blogging about the blogosphere… « Breakthrough Generation — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:55:18 +0000

[...] fast, especially in the comment section where the issue lives on. For example, comments on the post “Carbon Capture: Solution or Scam?” equated Teryn Norris with Hitler, as a supporter of genocide (aka: international human [...]

By: Eric Blevins

Eric Blevins — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:10:16 +0000

To anyone who doesn’t think electricity is a privilege,

Ask yourself why you have access to electricity and a large percentage of this planet’s people have never used it. The answer is because you are privileged and others are oppressed.

To anyone who thinks electricity is something vital,

Ask yourself why human beings survived for hundreds of thousands of years without electricity. The things that are vital are the things necessary for our survival and electricity is not one of them.

It is physically impossible for everyone in the world to have the same access to electricity that most Americans now have. The biosphere will collapse before we ever approach that goal.

People trying to live off the land are being wiped out so that we can have these “privileges” that we “enjoy.” Meanwhile we are losing the knowledge of how to live off the land as we destroy the land.

By: Cascadia Brian

Cascadia Brian — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:04:32 +0000

Another (amongst many) reasons to focus on our own sustainability and not try to solve China’s:

“Poll: Chinese more concerned about the environment than Americans”
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0407-hance_china_poll.html

By: jessejenkins

jessejenkins — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:54:01 +0000

Jack, this is a conversation that will continue into the future for sure, even if this thread closes for now. I think this thread has gone on for a LONG time, has clearly gotten overly heated, and it makes a lot of sense for Teryn and others to take a break from it.

I encourage ALL the participants in conversations at this blog to practice respect for each other, remember that the tone of written comments is difficult to discern (which implies we should ask for clarification before assuming a statement has a certain connotation that might be offensive), and that this blog is a community we all must maintain. Let’s all try to keep our cool, and respect that we often do not know where people are coming from or what their backgrounds and experiences are. Personal attacks prevent productive communication and dialog, breakdown our community and are not acceptable here.

BTW, this blog is not the official blog of Energy Action Coalition. It is a space for a diversity of voices in the youth climate movement from across the globe. There are over 200 contributors at ItsGettingHotInHere.org now! With such a diversity of contributors, I think we can accept (and indeed embrace) a fair amount of disagreement and debate, especially if it is respectful and productive.

I should also note that this site is moderated by a team of editors, who are all volunteers (which explains the sometimes less-than-timely moderation of comments, for which I apologize).

Cheers,

Jesse Jenkins
(volunteer!) policy editor, ItsGettingHotInHere.org
(and co-director, Breakthrough Generation Fellowship Program… among other things)