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The Rahm Doctrine: �You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,� -- (link)

Posted by znufrii Jan 28 '09, 09:08

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On how the Obama adminstration can use the current near-term crisis to accomplish its long-term goals. (www.nytimes.com)

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near-term crisis???? -- nm - Dane Duke Nuuk Jan 28, 09:14 15
- namely, the current banking/financial/economic crisis. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:18 14
  - pritty optimistic to call it near-term :) -- nm - Dane Duke Nuuk Jan 28, 09:19 13
    - meaning only that it's the crisis most imediately in front of us, not that it will be of short duration. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:21 12
      - wonder if there has been any calculations on the Finance Crisis's effect on global warming? -- nm - Dane Duke Nuuk Jan 28, 09:24 11
        
        probably minimal, if any. Won't have lasted long enough to have a profound effect. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:31 10
        
        depends how you calculate it - if you link the low price of oil to the crisis, then there's an impact - Roger More Jan 28, 09:35 5
        
        Your second point is of a piece with the article I linked. - znufrii Jan 28, 09:38 2
        
        What I read was that subsidies, etc won't make much difference and a price on carbon is needed - Roger More Jan 28, 09:49 1
        
        agreed. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:51
        
        to add - my point on the low price of oil isn't about direct emissions, but the impact it has on incentives to develop cleaner fuels, more efficient.. - Roger More Jan 28, 09:38 1
        
        we've already seen that come and go, with the spike in oil prices receding as quickly as it has. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:39
        
        the rise in CO2 ought to stop i think -- nm - Dane Duke Nuuk Jan 28, 09:33 3
        
        not enough to make a significant or even noticable change in the overall trends. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:34 2
        
        and will probably be temporary at best. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:34 1
        
        unfornately i think so to -- nm - Dane Duke Nuuk Jan 28, 09:36
they're fortunate to have so many at once -- nm - Roger More Jan 28, 09:13
Crisatunity. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 09:12
nice article. -- nm - Remlik Jan 28, 09:11 1
- I found the section on the looming health care crisis particularly striking. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:12

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