China and India are the worst polluters, Brazil are burning the rain forests. What we plan to do is like baling out a sinking boat with a thimble. Still, it will raise some nice taxes for Government. When few can afford to run a car, the elite will be able to, and on quiet roads. Until the whole world is pulling together, there is no chance of a solution.
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A lovely mix of denial and resignation lads!
A 16 year old with asbergers started to do something about it, she's just spent the last two weeks sailing across the Atlantic. It's no mean feat!
A 16 year old with asbergers started to do something about it, she's just spent the last two weeks sailing across the Atlantic. It's no mean feat!
Lockheed Martin need to get a move on and develop cold fusion, like they said they would.
His video’s are generally great, but that one is outstanding.
I posted this clip on here a while back:
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There have been youngsters and adults like Greta banging this drum since the 70s. For some reason the established media have chosen to run with this person (at last) but have never explained why they ignored those saying the same for the last 50 years.
Perhaps the establishment have recognised (too late - much much too late) that they have an opportunity to pin every tax hike they want onto the excuse of the environment - and having Greta bang the drum for them helps the public accept the tax. The establishment sociopaths have zero genuine concern for the planet. It exists to turn resources into an economy and thereby their own personal wealth. So long as they are wealthy in their own lifetime they don't give a damn about the future.
Great change is coming to the planet. Life is adaptable and has survived greater, more rapid changes than this and will continue to do so. Humanity is unlikely to survive it - the minute water or food becomes scarce within established boundaries then mass migrations, disease and wars will do the rest.
Because we have an opposable thumb snd can copy one another using tools we think we are smart. We are a deluded, stupid, stupid species easily obsessed with accumulation of trinkets. So long as we stay like that we deserve no other outcome in my opinion.
Perhaps the establishment have recognised (too late - much much too late) that they have an opportunity to pin every tax hike they want onto the excuse of the environment - and having Greta bang the drum for them helps the public accept the tax. The establishment sociopaths have zero genuine concern for the planet. It exists to turn resources into an economy and thereby their own personal wealth. So long as they are wealthy in their own lifetime they don't give a damn about the future.
Great change is coming to the planet. Life is adaptable and has survived greater, more rapid changes than this and will continue to do so. Humanity is unlikely to survive it - the minute water or food becomes scarce within established boundaries then mass migrations, disease and wars will do the rest.
Because we have an opposable thumb snd can copy one another using tools we think we are smart. We are a deluded, stupid, stupid species easily obsessed with accumulation of trinkets. So long as we stay like that we deserve no other outcome in my opinion.
no mean feat at all, but will be met with sneering from the usual suspects
aye, the individual on the street may not deserve extinction but as a collective species and whom we have allowed to rise to the top, the punishment fits the crime
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I worked on an anthology last year of weather presenters from all over the world talking about climate change, how they try to educate their viewers about it and how it affects their country. What I learned was that in Burkina Faso, South Africa, the Philippines, Ghana, Israel, Puerto Rico, Kenya and various other countries where they see the effects first hand every day, where their seasons are changing and you can't rely on rainfall anymore... There is no debate over whether it is real or not.
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I’d hazard a guess and say that there’s a link between climate change deniers and brexiteers.
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Love your posts Chris, don't always agree but always interesting. . As sad as it is, sooner we are wiped out the better. We had a wonderful opportunity with a miracle planet that could sustain us and lots of beautiful species for as long as we wanted or until another large natural disaster and have totally wrecked it, particulary in the last 150 years.
Just need to wait for antibiotics to stop working.
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Don't have to agree on everything. Sometimes I might be wrong, sometimes I might not have explained my point well enough, sometimes the reader might be wrong. It's the nature if debate.
Antibiotics are already proving increasingly ineffective. Microbes evolve faster than our scientific intervention - especially while human motivation for science funding remains solely on shareholder profits rather than betterment of humanity.
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The tiniest bit of digging on Greta reveals that she’s a bit of a puppet for a Green Energy company. The tight PR of it all is a bit jarring.
Yes we need to change, no we wouldn’t listen to sales pitches from the companies that are benefiting from her, but she’s about as real as an Instagram influencer.
Therein lies the problem.
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I agree with this and I think it's pretty cringey exploiting an unwell child this way.
I don't think we move nearer a solution either from her end-of-the-world rhetoric or the way some people treat her like a messiah. Too many people, on all sides, are using a looming crisis as a way to ride their political hobby horses.
As part of the book I worked on I talked to a Norwegian psychologist and author who wrote the best book I've read on the subject. Very nicely grounded in the reality of how people engage with the subject and extremely readable. A fascinating guy to have a beer with.
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That's the thing, I know its a huge problem, it's worrying, but an individual I can only do so much. We cant avoid plastics, we have to travel, we need to heat our homes etc etc. We need a huge shift but it has to come from the very top. I have my vote and that's pretty the only way the average person force a change. But as we all know, any new radical policies will unlikely come through before its too late. Especially with the shift to the right we're seeing globally (brexit, trump, etc).
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