Malcolm Austin wrote:
Hi Jim,
sorry I touched a raw nerve there! Without wanting to ramp up
the
"discussion" my comment would be: -

Your argument really seems to say that, dam the rest of the world, we are
going
to use all the energy we want. We did similar things in the past, as with
high
sulphur coal for power generation. The result was lots of acidified lakes
and dead
trees east of us.

Attitudes will have to change, or your very dry Death Valley will cover
rather more
of the country than it currently does..

Death Valley is currently covered in wild flowers. I was there last
week, beautiful. The world is changing so fast these days, you can't
even rely on a time tested metaphor.

Shawn