Salvation is cheap (and quick)
Prince Charles wants to stop “terrifying” climate changes that otherwise would cause “drought and starvation on a grand scale,” by doing something or other with Brazilian jungles. And it turns out that salvation for the world is amazingly cheap — only $30 billion a year, but it has to be done within a year and a half or all hell is going to break loose. Telegraph:
Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster — The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests…
a £15 billion annual programme was required to halt deforestation or the world would have to live with the dire consequences. “We will end up seeing more drought and starvation on a grand scale. Weather patterns will become even more terrifying and there will be less and less rainfall,” he said. “We are asking for something pretty dreadful unless we really understand the issues now and [the] urgency of them.”…
He said that every year, 20 million hectares of forest – equivalent to the area of England, Wales and Scotland – were destroyed and called for a “gigantic partnership” of governments, businesses and consumers to slow it down. “What we have got to do is try to ensure that these forests are more valuable alive than dead. At the moment, there is more value in them being dead,” he said. He estimated that the cost would be about £15 billion a year…
“You learn as you go along. I am going to be 60 this year. I would be a blinding idiot if I had not learnt a bit by now.”
Truer words might never have been spoken.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Best thing to do: stop with the Ethanal scam!
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-ethanol_amazon.html
But this would require Greenies like the prince to recognize reality, which they have proven highly-resistant to do…
May 20th, 2008 at 12:07 am
What the frightened Prince fails to understand is that we are losing tremendous tracts of rain forerst in Africa, South America, Asia each year because decades ago people like him wanted to stop the terrifying deaths on a grand scale due to drought, disease and starvation. If we had simply minded our own business and let nature take its course only a few million people would have died instead of the tens of millions who now scour the Earth for more land to grow food, build homes and farms, etc.
Read For Gods Sake - Stop Helping Africa.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:33 am
That’s a good link Original Frank. I found the following statement in it…
… Today ethanol accounts for as much as 20 percent of Brazil’s transport fuel market, and at a production cost of about $1 a gallon—or half the price of conventional oil—offers an economical alternative to drivers throughout the country. Nearly eight out of every ten new cars sold in Brazil are flex-fuel—capable of running on either an ethanol-gasoline mix (”gasohol”) or bioethanol…
Hasn’t ethanol reached the critical mass whereby to remove it from the energy equation means someone needs to build a number of oil refineries in a hurry?