Originally Posted By: SubieRubyRoo
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
I've never heard anyone say it's going to save the planet. Did you make that up?
It's a step in the right direction. At least they're trying something.
A step in the right direction? To which destination? Without making this into a discussion about religion, which this is not, let me ask you this: people who do not believe in religion and argue with those who do, base their arguments on the point that all religions are based on "faith" in something without having any "proof". Well, considering we truly have no idea of all of the forces at play in our little rock's weather, temperature, and seasonal cycles (we are making inferences based on things that we THINK drive the global weather patterns) that we cannot possibly measure since we do not know all of the variables, how is this any different than the previous faith discussed? Monkeys fling poo at the wall of the zoo, but hey, at least they're trying something, right?
Batteries do not eliminate the underlying issue of overall consumption, and especially waste. I'm saying there's still got to be some better, possibly yet undiscovered way to solve our energy issues regarding transportation.
I have a problem with your brand of logic. It's the same problem I had for 30 years in dealing with my many & varied American colleagues. It's a philosophy based on 'we cannot know everything so by implication, we therefore cannot know anything'. This sort of thing has it's place in a legal court room, where the sole objective is 'to win' regardless of whatever the facts say. Applied to something like climate change, it's downright dangerous!
Now I know you like arguments to be backed up by 'proof' so here's mine...
Back in the 1960's a Brit, Peter Higgs, postulated the existence of a sub-atomic particle. You would have dismissed this as no different from FAITH; unproven & so worthless. Yet five decades on, the people at the LHC discover the Higgs-Boson, exactly as Peter Higgs predicted.
Yes, the scientific community are today trying to predict what's going to be happening to the planet many decades into the future, and yes, it is horrendously complicated and yes, their conclusions they're drawing are tenuous, but that does not make them WRONG!!