Comments on: Here Comes the Electric Car!

By: poplar

poplar — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:46:20 +0000

To answer your question, if they are more affordable by then and available used, I will buy one. I bought a Prius with 90,000 miles last year but I hope to be driving it for many years to come.

By: Parker Cross

Parker Cross — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:29:43 +0000

True. So far the 21st century has not lived up to expectations.

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:21:39 +0000

What exactly am I responding to? That my link wasn’t scientific enough?

You agreed with me that “everything was debatable” and didn’t refute any specific points brought up in the Mother Jones Q&As, so I’m at a loss. Any chance you could point to where in that report there’s anything about everyone switching to plant-based diets to save the planet? I never said that livestock wasn’t extremely harmful to the environment on the large scale it is today. I just have general, knee-jerk skepticism when a single answer is laid on the table to the world’s trouble.

I generally challenge in hopes of learning something. I appreciate the link, but I’m not all willing to put in the effort if we can’t even get by insulting sources of information, instead of actually presenting and debating the ideas themselves.

By: paisano

paisano — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:31:35 +0000

@Decatur Metro: Perhaps you could cite scientific research rather than pop culture articles. Take a read on this before your respond:

Livestock’s Long Shadow from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM

Most pop culture conversation, like the article you cite, is not based in science or reality. Everything is debatable, but the science lies squarely on the side of plant-based diets.

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:37:16 +0000

The exclamation point looked like an “L” when I first saw this thread and I thought something had happened to the ubiquitous Mr. Black.