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[UncleAl]

A New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy

1) What does not exist cannot be discovered.
2) There are no maxima or minima to be discovered on a plane.
3) There are no exceptions to the laws of thermodynamics.
4) Physical reality is not subject to majority or minority vote, or any vote at all.
5) Prayer, see (4)
6) Enviro-whinerism: Expensive, shoddy, deadly.
7) Civilization knows what it is doing.
8) Don't be an idiot - or at least don't be a gullible idiot.

Sustainable development: Luddism.
Poverty: the process by which opportunity requires personal responsibility.
Natural: odorous, ignorant, dangerous, ineffective; always recommended to somebody else.
Environmentalism: whatever you have of value, we are against it.
Globalization: universal opportunity creates pandemic poverty because only workers have money to spend.
Liberal: one who believes HIV and AIDS are spread by a lack of funding.
Economic policy: best guesses in general; payoffs in particular.
Compassion: an evolutionarily stupid act committed at others' expense.
Conservation: somebody else in the tenebrous future deserves to consume it; and not them, either.
Social engineering: assassination of the future.