Not exactly an uplifitng message for those hoping for a better life:
Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over -- unless we find new ways of producing energy.” - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-planet-will-boil-over-if-young-afr...
President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy “the planet will boil over” if people in Africa are allowed to attain air conditioning, automobiles and big houses.
“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”
We got the good stuff but you can't have any. Isn't that the attitude usually hurled at those of us with a libertarian bent? Hey, if I have a choice between living in abject misery and improving my lot a little, you know what? Screw the planet -- boil away, baby.
