Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
I do wish Tricky that you’d make your point in as sensible a manner as MA.
I think it's up to TTR to make his point in whatever way he wishes: he may add a slightly redundant political point together with his primary observation, but you of all people must be able to relate to this trait.

As regards a green future, there is no doubt that we (or even Western Europe combined) cannot get anywhere acting on our own in absence of the BRIC economies. The efforts we're making are laudable but a bit like pissing into the wind.

So do we persist in "doing the right thing' or just give up on future generations? The economic ambitions of in particular China are such that they will continue to press on come what may. The best solution is to stop buying cheap imported consumer durables from China. Cut off the demand and the supply will wither. Easy to say and there will always be someone to buy the products, so it does look insoluble and as always human greed (at both supply and demand level) will win out.

So which will get us as a planet first? Global warming or global conflict? It's all "resource wars' and I can't see any good outcomes.