Global Climate Change Science News
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Re: Global Climate Change Science News
I think your last point is more on point, but at the same time if maintaining the planets tropical forests is a necessity for the survival of all then can it truly be said to belong to the countries where it grows? The again, the same argument might be applied to any vital natural resource, like oil say, or cobalt etc.
Who does the environment belong to exactly?
Who does the environment belong to exactly?
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Australia's coal reserves are a similar issue. Our government acts like it's our right to dig it up and export it, but that act is putting the world at danger through its contribution to global warming.
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Imagine if Europe would say: we open the doors to everybody, come over, leave the forest at peace. But no, if people have to feed themselves where they are, guess how their priorities lie!
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Much of the clear-felling in the Amazon occurs to create grazing land. The locals see little of the beef. Most of it is sold to hamburger chains in North America.
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The native peoples of the Amazon region are the one's suffering the consequence of logging, ranching, and having their traditional lands doused in glyphosate from the air - a practice which has only increased since the Brazilian health department concluded that gylphosate products did not cause cancer in humans, only in laboratory animals.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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I tried some roundup on some mulberry bushes, an invasive mulberry here. It rained right after that afternooon. Had better luck with bush killer spray. It does not killl the grass underneath.
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The teenage activist has made it to NY.
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https://www.statesman.com/news/20190223 ... nt-pay-offWhy Georgetown’s green energy gamble didn’t pay off
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/green-n ... uck-devore'Green New Deal' preview? Texas town's lofty environmentalism leaves residents with a nightmare
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They need one of them modular nuclear reactors. Good for 30 years. Just shop around. Delivery to any city.
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Like I said, "think tanks", "public policy" groups that are nothing more than PR are first against the wall.
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The Onion..has it somewhat right.
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Not the nation. Just the Republicans...
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Why Greta Makes Adults Uncomfortable
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“This child—and she is a child—has been scared and her parents are letting her be controlled by that fear,” writes the right-wing commentator Erick Erickson, who blames her parents for “depriving her of a sound education so she can lecture grownups.” Jonathan Tobin, at The Federalist, worries that the shoe is on the other foot: Thunberg has “forced her parents to adopt a vegan diet” and “bullied her mother to give up her career because it involved air travel.”
These may seem like exaggerated concerns, but Erickson and Tobin are really just engaging in a great American tradition: In this country, even before we greet you, we ask whether you’re being parented wrong.
Other arguments against Thunberg’s rhetoric can and should be made; if she wants to participate as an adult citizen, she should be criticized like one. But in The New York Times, the journalist Christopher Caldwell takes maybe the oddest line of all, claiming that Thunberg’s message is antidemocratic. “Democracy often calls for waiting and seeing. Patience may be democracy’s cardinal virtue,” he wrote. “Climate change is a serious issue. But to say, ‘We can’t wait,’ is to invite a problem just as grave.”
I want to thank Caldwell, because he reminded me of my own childhood. About 20 years ago, I was at a restaurant with my parents, reading a kid’s science magazine below the table. In a small box at the bottom of the page, it mentioned something called the greenhouse effect, caused by cars and factories. The effect could eventually screw up the entire planet’s environment.
My head jolted up. I interrupted my parents’ conversation, which was about something boring, like real-estate prices or which highway to take home.
“Is this real?” I asked, pointing at the magazine.
Oh yeah, definitely, one of them said.
“Is it getting fixed?” I said.
No, no, people don’t really know how to fix it.
And then I remember feeling something constrict in my chest. It was like the adult feeling of learning that a loved one is in danger, of seeing the comfortable world teeter on its axis. There was a problem with the entire planet, and everyone was just allowing it to go on?
In 1999, Caldwell was older than I am now, and the United States had virtually no national climate policy. Since then, I have gone to middle school and high school, graduated from college, moved across the country twice, spent years as a technology reporter, and covered climate change for four years. Since then, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has soared from 364 to 415 parts per million. But since then, the United States still has passed virtually no new national climate policy.
Caldwell is right that patience is a democratic virtue. But sloth is a cardinal sin. Perhaps only the young can tell the difference.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Insolent, delusional child! The real threat to the world is gender pronouns and brown immigrants!
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It makes me crazy that environmental science is a left/right issue. That's stupid. I blame the media!
But seriously, would it kill them to challenge guests with something other than the usual political talking points? For example, if a guy claims climate alarmists aren't lead by scientists, then challenge his scientific credentials ffs. Ask him questions that require a familiarity with the science, even better, that require him to reason on the spot. Avoid the talking points.
If your people can't do that then hire talking heads that can.
But seriously, would it kill them to challenge guests with something other than the usual political talking points? For example, if a guy claims climate alarmists aren't lead by scientists, then challenge his scientific credentials ffs. Ask him questions that require a familiarity with the science, even better, that require him to reason on the spot. Avoid the talking points.
If your people can't do that then hire talking heads that can.
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BTW at 16 you couldn't tell me nothing.
Maybe we're getting a glimpse of the helplessness these guys felt at 16...still pleasing a perfect daddy at 50.
Maybe we're getting a glimpse of the helplessness these guys felt at 16...still pleasing a perfect daddy at 50.
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