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RobertEarl

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3. Price it out?

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:24 PM

Jun 2016

That's another aspect.... the science says that the world as we know it can't continue with the overuse of the resource. People deny that, as if they think the world is what they make of it and is nothing else. Ask people where milk comes from and they say 'The store'.

We can't talk people out of overuse, so the fallback is to price things where they have to cut back. That is a de facto denial of applying science.

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The New Yorker: THE MISTRUST OF SCIENCE [View all] HuckleB Jun 2016 OP

Science gave us nuclear energy RobertEarl Jun 2016 #1

Oh my. First post. hunter Jun 2016 #5

It also gave us the computer with which you post your zany screeds Orrex Jun 2016 #8

And your point? HuckleB Jun 2016 #10

People go to work every day and do a decent job while they're there Warpy Jun 2016 #2

Price it out? RobertEarl Jun 2016 #3

They don't care about that energy star on the fridge Warpy Jun 2016 #4

I've lived without a fridge as a kid, and as a dysfunctional adult. No problem. hunter Jun 2016 #6

I don't blame her Warpy Jun 2016 #7

I lived without a refrigerator for two weeks. Dorian Gray Jun 2016 #9

When my refrigerator died two years ago, I bought a bag of ice at the market Warpy Jun 2016 #14

I know I couldn't REP Jun 2016 #12

I live out of a toaster oven in summer when I don't want to heat up the kitchen Warpy Jun 2016 #15

One of the first things I did when I bought this house REP Jun 2016 #16

I have a deep white porcelain sink Warpy Jun 2016 #17

This house was built in 1927 and was a speakeasy for a while REP Jun 2016 #18

This is a good read ismnotwasm Jun 2016 #11

The real beauty of science is that you can question and over turn long held beliefs. Yavin4 Jun 2016 #13