Reply #17: I posted Cuba's carbon efficiency data. [View All]

[NNadir]

It is possible to reduce carbon emissions by increasing poverty, though, I'll give you that.

That is another point I feel continually compelled to make.

I have always acknowledged that we could in theory reduce carbon emissions by impoverishing everyone. We could also reduce carbon emissions by killing everyone, which is of course, at the end of the day what the renewable fantasy is really about.

Once more I'll link the carbon efficiency figures, noting that the most carbon efficient economy in the world is that of Chad, where life expectancy is less than 50 years for most adults:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableh1gco2.xls

Every time I post this link, which now is about 2 or 3 times a day, I note that the excel file is sortable. Therefore it is relatively easy for anyone with a modicum of computer literacy to figure out what country does well, and what country does poorly. Chad comes in at 0.12 metric tons of carbon for each $1000 of GDP.

http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator_detail.cfm?IndicatorID=140&Country=CR


http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html


Cuba's figure is more than 40 times higher, the second worst in the Western Hemisphere, after Netherlands Antilles.

Cuba remains a very poor country, with a per capita income of a few thousand dollars, even after 45 years of continuous revolution although I'm sure anti-capitalist worker's people's struggle dictator of the proletariat El Supremo Fidel lives very well, as well as any capitalist any where. One wonders at this point what member of his family will replace him when he dies, while credulous Westerners drool on their shoes in amoral admiration.

Generalissimo Raul Castro looks like a tired old fart too:





Maybe they have other members of the family who can inherit the throne, I don't know.

Of course, no one knows how things will work out in the great socialist paradise south of Key West. Lieutenant-General Vassily Stalin, a notoriously incompetent drunkard, was in prison only a few months after his criminal father's death.

Costa Rica, about which, as José Figueres Ferrer remarked, had "a deeper and more human revolution than that of Cuba," tripled its GDP since 1960 in real terms, instituted a democracy that is admired by all who know of it, oh, and yeah, reduced it's carbon intensity to the level of France, 0.31 metric tons of carbon dioxide per $1000 of GDP.

Really it's a wonderful country, Costa Rica, a real, if rare, example of renewable energy working on scale. If I were promoting the absurd idea that the world could survive on current renewable technology - and I'm not - I would look to Costa Rica to provide evidence, not Cuba. Cuba, after all, is a dictator's toilet. But I do understand how people can reject my gracious offer to help with their poor thinking.

I'm sure that this appeal to data will produce the usual expletives proving that the opposition simply cannot comprehend what data is, or how to interpret it or what it means. But I already knew that.

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