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Re:Water Revolution in Israel Overcomes Any Threat of Drought by ars on Friday May 29, 2015 @06:55PM (#9628017)
> Making natural gas cheaper should not be one of our priorities. It's non-renewable and contributes to carbon emissions.

Your attitude is WHY there is so much CO2 emission.

If everyone switched to natural gas no one would worry about global warming. You would not be happy if CO2 emission was slashed in half in one go? Because that's what switching to natural gas would do.

Instead people bash it because it's not perfect.

Quite the opposite: If you actually cared about climate change cheaper natural gas would be your top priority.

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Re:Water Revolution in Israel Overcomes Any Threat of Drought by marssaxman on Friday May 29, 2015 @07:16PM (#9628115)
Natural gas may be a step on the way but it is obviously not a destination.
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Re:Water Revolution in Israel Overcomes Any Threat of Drought by ars on Friday May 29, 2015 @07:28PM (#9628158)
Sure, but it's still an extremely useful step. Fighting against it does not help the environment.
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Re:Water Revolution in Israel Overcomes Any Threat of Drought by marssaxman on Friday May 29, 2015 @07:49PM (#9628231)
From my understanding it's not unreasonable that someone whose goal is not "reduce CO2 emissions" but "reduce CO2 missions to a sustainable level" might see natural gas as a waste of time, diverting energy that might be better spent on a long-term solution.
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