This kind of thinking is becoming the norm

surely you can't believe this.

 

humans are very resilient and resourceful.

 

again, commodities are not more expensive now than they have been in the past. that isnt cherry picking. the average cost of these things has no risen, it has in fact declined. you can find time periods where this is not true, but over the long term, it simply isnt true that these things become more scarce or costly. the brass or copper or zinc or bauxite or whatever you need is not more rare or more expensive that it was in the past. there is no evidence that we are "running out" of raw materials or resources. the prices of the basic necessities have been going down basically forever. that is why you spend a far smaller percentage of your income on them than your parents did. food for instance is a far smaller fraction of our expenses than it was for previous generations. this is because scarcity is a myth. scarcity is created by overly powerful central government and corruption that it those government inherently creates. corruption, like the overwhelming and devastating corruption that would necessarily happen if we had cap and trade.

correct, they have declined precipitously. food prices are not even a significant expense in your and my budgets, unless we insist on eating every meal out and even then the price isnt the food it is the service and the rent for the restaurant and all that. food itself is an insignificant cost compared to something like medical care.

well that is lovely. what you dont seem to realize is that extremism is bad. the key is moderation. you dont want a massive and extreme cap and trade program that destroys economic progress. the solution is balance, amigo. balance between rampant and predatory capitalism and enviro-communism. try to think about balance, try to realize that a wise man measures an issue from both sides and doesnt blindly favor an extreme policy like cap and trade.

 

In other words, a virus.

 

that is such a stupid analogy. viruses have an actual living host, the earth is not a living being that can be damaged!

 

It's a host though.

 

again, food prices are not up because of lack of supply. food prices go up because of the kind of stupid politics that red favors.

 

its a very stupid analogy. is a mountain a "host" for the virus mountain goat? is a fishbowl the host for the virus fish?

if the host is an lifeless inanimate object, the "virus" cannot have a deleterious effect on it, so the analogy is pointless.