How to engage a climate alarmist with some policies that might actually avert their ambition to create a world of excited misery - to make the world a better place for all
From here:
How Climate Alarmism Killed Real Environmentalism › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
Seven discussion points – my biggest concern is micro-plastics in oceans.
I will put the numbered points and some key take-aways below, click the link above for the expanded narrative for each:
1) Loss of Insect Population - insects play a critical role in consuming decomposing animals and plants. They are an essential link in the food chain, the glue that connects microorganisms to smaller predators. Wind turbine blades are a mass killer of insects.
2) Aquatic Dead Zones - nutrient-rich waterways nourish overgrowth of algae, which produce deadly toxins that kill fish en masse and create massive aquatic dead zones.
3) Overfishing - rational solutions are to enforce fishing quotas, and encourage industrial aquaculture onshore and in coastal waters.
4) Energy Security in Developing Nations - climate alarm has inspired the international community to do everything in its power to deny prosperity to the poverty-stricken populations living in proximity to the world’s great tropical forests.
5) The Biofuel Disaster - over 500,000 square miles are now given over to biofuel monocultures, most of them saturated in chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, most of them replacing what previously were tropical rainforests. In exchange for this devastation, biofuel produces less than 2 percent of global transportation fuel.
6) Massive Oceanic Garbage Patches - the plastic-spewing superpower these days is the Philippines. With less than 2 percent of the world’s population, this island nation produces nearly one-third of the estimated 1 million tons of plastic dumped into the ocean every year. In the Central Pacific Ocean, a body of water larger in area than every continent on Earth put together.
7) Population Crash - humans today ingest increasing levels of chemical endocrine disruptors unknown a century ago, present in everything from the air, water, and food, to fabrics and cosmetics, harming health and fertility.
The article concludes with this “the climate alarmist focus on achieving “net zero” is discrediting environmentalism at large, and taking attention away from other serious environmental threats—is perhaps the saddest chapter in the story of a movement that has lost its way.”
The article does not state that this list is exhaustive.
Would be nice to have a rational debate with the Net Zero faction who claim to have the only permissible narrative right? Perhaps relegating politics to implementing policies they campaign on rather than thrusting down people’s throats, right?
No rational person wants to exist in a toxic environment. We all want a clean planet. What we don’t want are chicken littles preaching faux science enforced by a police state.
I will repost this link to demonstrate the absurdity of attempting the control of methane and CO2 emissions that have a negligible impact on the climate.
Onwards!
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Great article, I recently became aware of a book
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Brokers-Power-Politics-Development/dp/0415109639
That really goes back to how all this started.
After decades of failed development plans for the South and the mounting pressure of the environmental crisis all over the planet, the Earth Summit was billed as a dramatic new approach to solving the planet's problems. Recognizing that environment and development are inseparable was a fundamental step forward, but development quickly became much more important than environment. There was little recognition of the underlying cause of today' s crisis - the unsustainable economic models that most of the world is currently following.
The new order that emerged after Rio is identical to the old one. If this new order were merely a warmed-over version of the old, things might be expected to continue deteriorating at the current pace, if not accelerate, since the new mantra is that the environment may even be a profitable enterprise that will stimulate development. What is more, the new order is slowly creating a global management elite that is coopting the strongest people's movements, the very movements that brought the crisis to public attention.
This book offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the UNCEO process. Examining the origin, context, and the major participants, this book also helps readers understand the transformation of 'development' as well as the deep changes the Green movement has undergone.
Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already have power. Worse still, it has robbed the poor of the little power they had. It has made them victims of a market economy that has thus far threatened our planet... few negotiators realised how critical their decisions are to our generation.
Also: volcanoes. Do models take account of volcanoes, which are mostly unpredictable?