IMF head says world must come to grips with climate change costs

[Blackleaf]

It would be easier if we started weaning off of fossil fuels.

How Fossil Fuel Interests Attack Renewable Energy

No. It would be easier if we stopped dotting and blighting our landscapes with useless, inefficient, ugly, but expensive windmills which do sod all except make our energy bills more expensive and start building more nuclear-powered and coal-fired power stations like the Germans and Chinese are doing.

Less wind, more coal and nuclear.

 

[mentalfloss]

No. It would be easier if we stopped dotting and blighting our landscapes with useless, inefficient, ugly, but expensive windmills which do sod all except make our energy bills more expensive and start building more nuclear-powered and coal-fired power stations like the Germans and Chinese are doing.

Less wind, more coal and nuclear.

Coal, no.

Nuclear, yes.

 

[captain morgan]

Read his post again.

To go into the recycled talking points and generalized tripe is beyond banal.

So, what you're really saying is that the IMF talks long and loud about wealth redistribution on one hand, and later turns around and buys-up the natural resources of the poorest of nations thereby eliminating these nations from developing an economy and becoming independent.

Sound about right?

It would be easier if we started weaning off of fossil fuels.

How Fossil Fuel Interests Attack Renewable Energy

You first... Let me know how it's working for ya when it's -30

Coal, no.

Germany has said 'yes'

Nuclear, yes.

Fukushima​

 

[petros]

So, what you're really saying is that the IMF talks long and loud about wealth redistribution on one hand, and later turns around and buys-up the natural resources of the poorest of nations thereby eliminating these nations from developing an economy and becoming independent.

Sound about right

Remember when we owned these?

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

 

[mentalfloss]

So, what you're really saying is that the IMF talks long and loud about wealth redistribution on one hand, and later turns around and buys-up the natural resources of the poorest of nations thereby eliminating these nations from developing an economy and becoming independent.

Sound about right?

How is that anywhere near what I am saying?


Fukushima, lol

 

[petros]

Are you trying to sound clever again?

Are you trying at anything in life?

If you don't like reality that is too f-cking bad.

Want a quarter to buy a renewable clue?

 

[captain morgan]

How is that anywhere near what I am saying?

You aren't saying anything... Platitudes, cliches and rhetoric are worthless.

Fukushima, lol

I wonder if those folks that were living around ground zero are lol-ing

 

[petros]

Mentalflaws.....

 

[captain morgan]

Sure is interesting how buddy plays the emotional card on reaching out to the poorest of the poor when it comes to global warming (correction: climate change), but can manage a hearty belly-laugh relative to folks that will be dying a slow, painful death from radiation poisoning.

Helluva guy

 

[petros]

Sure is interesting how buddy plays the emotional card on reaching out to the poorest of the poor when it comes to global warming (correction: climate change), but can manage a hearty belly-laugh relative to folks that will be dying a slow, painful death from radiation poisoning.

Helluva guy

Wonderful. Buddy is fully supportive of the nuclear industry which I am as well but for completely different reasons. I'd never wish a reactor built in haste with "green" leanings on anyone.

Do you think UNEP and IMF will build wind farms or will they develope the NG Haiti has for GE gas turbines then start drilling the oil reserves that rival our own?

Do you feel the green love or the love of green?

 

[Blackleaf]

Coal, no.

Nuclear, yes.

Coal, yes (as they are doing in Germany), nuclear, yes, fracking, yes.

At the end of the day, whilst Germany embraces coal-fired power stations and China opens at least one nuclear-powered station every WEEK and so will enjoy energy for decades to come, loony-tunes countries like Canada who have let the Swampies and other assorted weirdos take over their energy policies will be living at home by candlelight in darkened cities by 2025 because of their silly reliance on useless windmills or other such useless "green" policies. The Swampies will plunge you back to the 13th Century, and countries like Germany and China will be laughing.

 

[petros]

Mentalflaws has never seen the destructive nature of of uranium extraction because it's no longer promoted front and center as the most evil thing on the planet like bitumen.

Coal, yes (as they are doing in Germany), nuclear, yes, fracking, yes.

At the end of the day, whilst Germany embraces coal-fired power stations and China opens at least one nuclear-powered station every WEEK and so will enjoy energy for decades to come, loony-tunes countries like Canada who have let the Swampies and other assorted weirdos take over their energy policies will be living at home by candlelight in darkened cities by 2025 because of their silly reliance on useless windmills or other such useless "green" policies. The Swampies will plunge you back to the 13th Century, and countries like Germany and China will be laughing.

Who do you think signed up as the uranium supplier for China? Botswana?

 

[mentalfloss]

So basically none of you refuted my original premise that we do not have to undertake some massive redistribution of wealth to reduce emissions.

And - bonus round - the IMF's own fact sheet on climate change also exemplifies that point.


Good to know.

 

[petros]

So basically none of you refuted my original premise that we do not have to undertake some massive redistribution of wealth to reduce emissions.

And - bonus round - the IMF's own fact sheet on climate change also exemplifies that point.


Good to know.

So why is it being done?

 

[mentalfloss]

Why is our wealth gap increasing?

Well it's not because of an IMF plot to redistribute wealth, that's for sure.

Also, Fukushima, lol

 

[petros]

Why is our wealth gap increasing?

Well it's not because of an IMF plot to redistribute wealth, that's for sure.

Also, Fukushima, lol

Inflation.

You have a lot to learn about money son.

Dig a little instead of feeding off of overreacting.org propaganda.

Here ya go kid. Something for you to peruse..... http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...=CG9wiRZ-6pRY_371MNKFRg&bvm=bv.68911936,d.aWw

 

[Zipperfish]

No. It would be easier if we stopped dotting and blighting our landscapes with useless, inefficient, ugly, but expensive windmills which do sod all except make our energy bills more expensive and start building more nuclear-powered and coal-fired power stations like the Germans and Chinese are doing.

Less wind, more coal and nuclear.

What, coal power plants are prettier than windmills? :lol:

 

[petros]

Windmills? Who is grinding grain or ripping logs?

 

[mentalfloss]

Inflation.

You have a lot to learn about money son.

Dig a little instead of feeding off of overreacting.org propaganda.

Here ya go kid. Something for you to peruse..... http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...=CG9wiRZ-6pRY_371MNKFRg&bvm=bv.68911936,d.aWw

Inflation is primary the reason for the increasing wealth gap?

 

[petros]

Yuuuuup. Do you own or rent?