I think that it is good to talk about this and I do not think that it makes you an alarmist.
I worry about a lot of things. I worry about how the next generation of children is going to turn out considering that most of them are being half-raised by half-stepped out parents, being pumped full of sugars and pills and made to sit in a classroom for 8 hours with 40 other students and worn out teachers who are being burdened with their duties of teaching academia AND being expected to teach good morals, almost have to RAISE an upwards of 200 students and discipline them effectively while keeping them from feeling bad and keeping angry parents off their backs.
I worry about the environment and what is going to happen if we keep reproducing and consuming without teaching our kids regard for life or recycling or to value what they have rather than tossing it out willy nilly to go into a landfill and just buying another.
I worry about the economy and what is going to happen to the poor and underprivileged when shit gets so expensive that they can barely live and jobs become so scarce that welfare goes from an "entitlement" to a necessity. I worry about the fact that it is inevitable that people who can't afford to "Go Green" WON'T and it will end up doing more damage to the environment or that government standards for environmental issues will become so high that shit like gas and food prices will sky-rocket leaving them double screwed because they can't afford the green products OR the regular products.
So no, you are not an alarmist. People need to talk about this kind of thing. Climate change is real, no matter what caused it, it is real.
If I could take it a step further, and back on target, you may or may not agree with points following:
Releasing vast amounts of carbon into the thin shell of atmosphere of our planet deserves attention...but I'm not convinced that's the sole contributer to warming. Especially when one steps back and looks at a 500,000 year spectrum of patterns. We are reaching the peak of a reoccuring warming cycle.
Now...government mandates an elimination of incandescent bulbs? That's nothing more than a feeble attempt, which will have little or no effect on carbon emissions, at the risk of mercury by-products leaching from the disposal of flourescent bulbs into our landfills for the sake of saving face..."look! we're doing something that will fix global warming!" ...meanwhile trucks and cars continue to belch toxic fumes from their tailpipes...
...and working class families go broke trying to keep their homes lighted.
Every generation lives in fear of what we are leaving behind for our children. Every point you made is valid...and often mirrors mine.
I've always admired the scepticism you look at the world with. If more of us did so, we wouldn't follow the herd and the world would be a better place.
No, I agree with you and I know that our government has more information regarding climate change phenomena than they are letting on. I believe that a lot of what they are going could probably be linked to economic benefits for SOMEONE but I won't speculate much further than that.
The sad but true fact about the United States government is that you can figure out why and what by tracing back the money source to who.
Is it normal that the Midwest is turning into a desert?
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I think that it is good to talk about this and I do not think that it makes you an alarmist.
I worry about a lot of things. I worry about how the next generation of children is going to turn out considering that most of them are being half-raised by half-stepped out parents, being pumped full of sugars and pills and made to sit in a classroom for 8 hours with 40 other students and worn out teachers who are being burdened with their duties of teaching academia AND being expected to teach good morals, almost have to RAISE an upwards of 200 students and discipline them effectively while keeping them from feeling bad and keeping angry parents off their backs.
I worry about the environment and what is going to happen if we keep reproducing and consuming without teaching our kids regard for life or recycling or to value what they have rather than tossing it out willy nilly to go into a landfill and just buying another.
I worry about the economy and what is going to happen to the poor and underprivileged when shit gets so expensive that they can barely live and jobs become so scarce that welfare goes from an "entitlement" to a necessity. I worry about the fact that it is inevitable that people who can't afford to "Go Green" WON'T and it will end up doing more damage to the environment or that government standards for environmental issues will become so high that shit like gas and food prices will sky-rocket leaving them double screwed because they can't afford the green products OR the regular products.
So no, you are not an alarmist. People need to talk about this kind of thing. Climate change is real, no matter what caused it, it is real.
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Well said...
If I could take it a step further, and back on target, you may or may not agree with points following:
Releasing vast amounts of carbon into the thin shell of atmosphere of our planet deserves attention...but I'm not convinced that's the sole contributer to warming. Especially when one steps back and looks at a 500,000 year spectrum of patterns. We are reaching the peak of a reoccuring warming cycle.
Now...government mandates an elimination of incandescent bulbs? That's nothing more than a feeble attempt, which will have little or no effect on carbon emissions, at the risk of mercury by-products leaching from the disposal of flourescent bulbs into our landfills for the sake of saving face..."look! we're doing something that will fix global warming!" ...meanwhile trucks and cars continue to belch toxic fumes from their tailpipes...
...and working class families go broke trying to keep their homes lighted.
Every generation lives in fear of what we are leaving behind for our children. Every point you made is valid...and often mirrors mine.
I've always admired the scepticism you look at the world with. If more of us did so, we wouldn't follow the herd and the world would be a better place.
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No, I agree with you and I know that our government has more information regarding climate change phenomena than they are letting on. I believe that a lot of what they are going could probably be linked to economic benefits for SOMEONE but I won't speculate much further than that.
The sad but true fact about the United States government is that you can figure out why and what by tracing back the money source to who.