[marknutter]

The only way we're going to truly minimize human impact is by forcing developing nations like China and India to dramatically change the way they are growing their economies, which frankly, doesn't seem very fair. They have as much right as the rest of the 1st world to develop their country and nobody is going to be able to tell them otherwise. The only real way out of this mess is a mass exodus away from fossil fuels over to nuclear power or the discovery of some sort of new abundant power source like fusion (solar and wind aren't going to cut it).

[phaemon]

>The only way we're going to truly minimize human impact is by forcing developing nations like China and India to dramatically change the way they are growing their economies

Firstly, the US and EU combined output more CO2 than China and India combined, so we can make a substantial contribution to reducing CO2 emissions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...

Secondly, a mixture of Solar, Wind, Hydro, Tidal and Geothermal can certainly "cut it".