Crichton: Warmer's Nightmare

[Oddball]

The 'concept of private property'...how about the 'concept' of the commons...property that belongs to all of us...you know, the air we breath, the water we drink, the fish, fowl, plants and animals we eat...the track record shit you briefly allude to...WHO pays for the destruction and contamination of the commons you right wing pea brain?

History has shown that when something belongs to everyone, it in fact belongs to nobody and gets treated that way. A great example is around Yellowstone, where the "common" land was leased out to Canadians, who mined the gold and then bugged out of town leaving their cynanide sluice ponds behind, for taxpayers to clean up.

Free markets...HERE in America...Really? Since when? We have a subsidized market...socialism and welfare for corporations and free enterprise for the rest of us...

You couldn't be more delusional if you had to be. That socialistic welfare state has its tentacles wrapped around just about every aspect of American life. Cherry picking those aspects that you don't like, in favor of ignoring those that you do like, is the height of disingenuousness....But par for the course for you Jethro.

You call me a 'Jethro' after you just gave a classic example of a subsidized market? In a TRUE free market, the cost of that Canadian mining corporation's cyanide waste would be built IN to their operating expense and it would force THEM to clean it up and force them to include those REAL costs in their market price...but they greased palms and lobbied their way into corporate welfare...

And that's exactly what I was talking about, as happens to collectivized property, you incoherent imbecile.

Maybe you should've got a little more than that sixth-grade edumacation, Jethro.

 

[Samson]

I'm probably going to skip out on reading "State of Fear". Although its close to the "Tom Clancy genre" I do read from time to time.

If the post is truly a book review then did you find the action stimulating and the penmanship concise or was it posted here to elicit responses on the scientific topic?

before the Climategate Emails revealed the Conspiracy to Fabricate Science.

If you haven't read State of Fear, then now would be terrific timing.

"Penmanship?"

Toronato, when WAS the last time you read a book?

Before Gutenberg invented the printing press?

I found the premise of the book a little far fetched at the time I read it which was a year or two ago. However, I found Chrichton's explainations of Warmer's faulty science interesting. Now that his science fiction has been non-fictionalised, I think the book could be read from another perspective.