Reply #8: But the real question is does a single American human being have twice [View All]

[NNadir]

"the right" to energy as a Chinese human being?

The answer is no in my estimation. If Americans, an increasingly stupid and lazy group of people, were to cut their consumption by half, to equal the Chinese per capita level, then we would be able to support 300 million Chinese.

As I keep saying, the Chinese are at least doing something: There's is not a culture that prizes scientific illiteracy. They have a practical, if draconian, program for population stabilization; they are building and designing nuclear reactors of novel types for broad application, they are actively researching biological fuels, they are providing the world wide base for scientific talent in graduate schools...the list goes on. On the other hand our nation, by a slim majority, have just announced to the planet that we have embraced scientific illiteracy on a grand scale.

How is then that we have a special right to twice the resources?