CLimate change
This in response to a post I read concerning bovine flatulence and its attendant dangers
Termites trump cows when it comes to methane emmisions! Check it out online. Carbon dioxide levels might well be a trailing indicator of temperature rise. It has been at higher levels in the past than it is now. And without the burning of fossil fuels. If our cure has nothing to do with the ailment, how can it help?
CLimate change is normal. There is no stasis in climate. It warms and it cools. Also, our sun and solar system are a developing situation. Just as a human is an infant but once, the earth and sun will be the age it is right now, only right now. In a few billion years, if science is right, the sun will blow up and then implode. The ultimate climate change!
What I find interesting is that in the early seventies, the "climate change" boogie man was global cooling and the onset of an ice age. In the eighties and ninieties up until recently, the monster under the bed was global warming. Now the watchword has changed to "climate change'.
All of the above "problems" seem to be best addressed by raising taxes and destroying personal property rights as well as any economies that seem to be in the way.
I have lived a "back to nature" life style for several years. No electricity, no running water, no TV and no internet. It ain't all it is cracked up to be. Been there, done that and don't necessarily want to do it again. Most folks that espouse this revolution do so from the comfort of an airconditioned apartment while reading and opining on a computer powered by electricity.
There is nothing perfect. There is nothing without cost of some sort. However, we have the greatest lifestyle in human history right now. If we allow the alarmists to have their way, we will retrograde to the fifteenth century rather quickly. And with the decline if lifestyle, you can depend on a return to feudalism. Thnk about a life without the benefits provided by capitalism and the oil economy: Electricity. Safe abundant food. Clean water to drink and bathe in. Medicine. Communications. Safe affordable travel. Air conditioning. Heat. Affordable and abundant clothing. Entertainment, freedeom of action and speech.
Instead of complaining about the best time in history, perhaps we would be better occupied by seeing hoow much better we can make life for more of the earth's population. Most of the world lives in oppressing, abject poverty caused by political problems, not a lack of resourses. Maybe we could bring them capitalism and the ownership and control of private property. Then, they too could participate in the good life.
Humans are not a pathogen.
Termites trump cows when it comes to methane emmisions! Check it out online. Carbon dioxide levels might well be a trailing indicator of temperature rise. It has been at higher levels in the past than it is now. And without the burning of fossil fuels. If our cure has nothing to do with the ailment, how can it help?
CLimate change is normal. There is no stasis in climate. It warms and it cools. Also, our sun and solar system are a developing situation. Just as a human is an infant but once, the earth and sun will be the age it is right now, only right now. In a few billion years, if science is right, the sun will blow up and then implode. The ultimate climate change!
What I find interesting is that in the early seventies, the "climate change" boogie man was global cooling and the onset of an ice age. In the eighties and ninieties up until recently, the monster under the bed was global warming. Now the watchword has changed to "climate change'.
All of the above "problems" seem to be best addressed by raising taxes and destroying personal property rights as well as any economies that seem to be in the way.
I have lived a "back to nature" life style for several years. No electricity, no running water, no TV and no internet. It ain't all it is cracked up to be. Been there, done that and don't necessarily want to do it again. Most folks that espouse this revolution do so from the comfort of an airconditioned apartment while reading and opining on a computer powered by electricity.
There is nothing perfect. There is nothing without cost of some sort. However, we have the greatest lifestyle in human history right now. If we allow the alarmists to have their way, we will retrograde to the fifteenth century rather quickly. And with the decline if lifestyle, you can depend on a return to feudalism. Thnk about a life without the benefits provided by capitalism and the oil economy: Electricity. Safe abundant food. Clean water to drink and bathe in. Medicine. Communications. Safe affordable travel. Air conditioning. Heat. Affordable and abundant clothing. Entertainment, freedeom of action and speech.
Instead of complaining about the best time in history, perhaps we would be better occupied by seeing hoow much better we can make life for more of the earth's population. Most of the world lives in oppressing, abject poverty caused by political problems, not a lack of resourses. Maybe we could bring them capitalism and the ownership and control of private property. Then, they too could participate in the good life.
Humans are not a pathogen.
Labels: capitalism, climate change, cows, global warming, termites
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