For instance, NYC needs a lot of food shipped in. It also needs a lot of water shipped in. The 40+ year construction of Water Tunnel #3 comes to mind…
Unless you’re living on a farm, that’s true for most of the US.
As far as the oil companies being investors, true. But it would be far better to expropriate their oil profits into submission, forcing them to either adapt (much more quickly than they are) or die. The idea should be to raise fossil fuel energy costs to the point where nascent clean tech can compete, and to use the money expropriated to fund development and roll-out of that tech.[/quote]
LOL, meanwhile, China’s already realized CO2 increase from coal consumption exceeds Kyoto’s CO2 reductions by 4:1…
