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Oilrig medic,this is the sort of pedantic nit picking I expect from climate change/peak oil deniers.Please read the article as a whole and with as open a mind as you can muster.That way you may be able to educate yourself in unfamiliar concepts.
Give it a break - his point was completely correct, his comments over several years have been valuable, and labelling someone pointing out factual errors (which you didn't even bother to discuss) as using 'pedantic nit picking' reflects pretty poorly on the person saying it, at least in this forum.
The charts were labeled as 'hypothetical', which to me meant notional. You, however, appear to have an axe to grind, and seem to prefer to persist in your misunderstanding.
Thira,
When you write a paper, any graphs or pictures jump out and stick in the mind of the reader. I just felt the things I pointed out detract from the papers credibility as a whole. When someone is talking to me about something I don't know if I catch a few obvious errors I start to suspect it all. That being said most of the article is weel written and all addiction pathways are the same no matter what the chemical. As long as you feel rewarded you reinforce the behavior to get the reward. However US consumption culture is not the rule for the world or for history. It is really a blip on the radar. If we can take the carbon out of the footprint by switching to Nukes + alternatives we will be OK in my opinion.
Pedantically yours,
Matt