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DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE AMERICAN CLIMATE DEBATE?
ON NEW ORLEANS, FROM NOVEMBER 25, 2000
SANCHO: “So where are you off to, Quixote?”
QUIXOTE: “We’re closing down our offices in the great state of Louisiana. I’m selling some real estate and liquidating
some assets--that kind of thing.”
SANCHO: “Why are your friends selling their real estate holdings in New Orleans?”
QUIXOTE: “I didn’t say that.”
SANCHO: “Did your address get given out to Greenpeace?”
QUIXOTE: “Nope. All I can say, Sancho, is one of the boys from Bermuda Biologicals got a little too loud in a Karaoke bar
the other night and so I’m off to liquidate assets.”
SANCHO: “Something going to happen I should know about?”
QUIXOTE: “Where? What do you mean?”
ON ECONOMICS, FROM APRIL 3, 2006
QUIXOTE: “There is nothing we can do to cope with global warming. We must stay the economic course.”
SANCHO: “First, you say we cannot modify our economic system.”
QUIXOTE: “Precisely, Sancho.”
SANCHO: “Because it is fragile.”
QUIXOTE: “Very.”
SANCHO: “Then you say that when our economic system is battered by climate change, its resiliency will carry us through
the tough times.”
QUIXOTE: “Exactly, Sancho.”
SANCHO: “But we can’t adjust its course when it is healthy?”
QUIXOTE: “Now you have it, Sancho.”
ON THE ACIDIC OCEANS, FROM AUGUST 2, 2004
SANCHO: “Why are you adding baseball base bags to the ocean?”
QUIXOTE: “Look, I do as I am told. They said the ocean was getting too acidic and I should add some bases to it.”
SANCHO: “You are one funny lackey, Quixote. Are you sure they said bases? As in the plural?”
QUIXOTE: “You mean I should just add first base? What difference does it make? You environmentalists are so picky.”
THE DIALOGUES OF SANCHO AND QUIXOTE: MYTHICAL DEBATES ON GLOBAL WARMING 1997 - 2010