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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Also: volcanoes. Do models take account of volcanoes, which are mostly unpredictable?
Is it Nigel Farge? Similar most excellent points.
These points are key. I had no idea about the Phillipines dumping.
I've seen videos on China: they go to alarming lengths to cover things up. As long as it looks OK. It's not OK at all.
What do you think of, is it USA pumping C02 way down into the ground?
C02 is not inert; it reacts and I have to wonder what it's doing?
I guess it's sealed. Until some earthquake.
Have people measured the 02 content in various cities, anyone know? Anyone know the graph over 10 years?
I do trust our scientists/innovators to develop things to help us all.
My mate suffered badly, turned out to be eczema and I unexpectedly saw this place where I live for 'light beds', using them.
We purchased 8 sessions (not cheap) but they helped a lot.
This is an example.
I'm not so sure about environment, are you?
The drive is to take people off land into concrete 'boxes'
in the air. But people CARE for their own land often well.
I think condo dwellers need somehow to connect to land also.
I think grassroots matter.