AFLAC duck syndrome
J GOODWIN
In the earliest AFLAC commercials, this duck is cursed with being able to say only one word, which happens to be the sponsor's name. Further, whenever he gets a golden opportunity to answer someone's mission-critical question with his one word, he's cursed with never getting heard. In the end he's always screaming with full throat “AFLAC!!!!” and still, by some miracle nobody hears him. That's the AFLAC duck syndrome.
(Unfortunately, the comic who voiced the duck made a few truly embarrassing remarks and got himself fired. Since then the AFLAC duck has been rather quiet in commercials.)
Now, the people on this board keep praying in public for climate answers, amid feelings of impending catastrophe. They look again and again at certain energy-expensive solutions and despair. Then they turn toward much the same solutions again, and again, and again. I'll take a wild guess that somebody might have part of a career to lose if some particular proposed solution eventually goes down the drain.
Meanwhile, I'm fated to be the AFLAC duck. I periodically say, right here are five or more potent, affordable climate solutions all competing with each other. In response, I often see a response of almost total silence, cheap hand waving and naysaying with easily countered arguments.
I apologize for not responding to questions at times, but I'm a caretaker for my 87 year old wife, so I can't answer your questions sometimes. We are now safely housed, and we were on couches and in motels for 4 months. The USA is like that.
Yours,
Paul Klinkman