| This view is so childish it is only taken seriously by those who already agree with it. > Ecologists can't seem to see that when whale oil starts to run out, petroleum is discovered But not before many types of whale were nearly wiped out, and may yet go extinct. > or that when farm yields flatten, fertilizer comes along, What? Fertilizers have been known for centuries. Modern fertilizers are hardly a panacea. They come with costs of their own. > or that when glass fiber is invented, demand for copper falls. This has nothing to do with any of the other arguments, and demand for copper is still high enough that people are stripping it out of vacant buildings via breaking and entering. Risking injury, jail time and even death. > But optimists see economic growth leading to technological change that would result in the use of lower-carbon energy. That would allow warming to level off long before it does much harm. It's pretty obvious if you look objectively at the data that "much harm" has already been done. This blog post is the epitome of biased garbage. |