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It must be tough being you.
You live in fear everyday based on theories offered by:
1) Scinteitsts who continualkly ask for funding from the left and in return agree with whatever it is the left wants them to agree with
2) a former VP who made an ass of himself as a politician who cried "cheater" and so, instead, grew a beard and made millions of dollars marketing a theory that he knew people on the left would pay good money to hear about.
yep.....it must be tough to be you.
3) Those who keep their heads in the sand
There is universal consensus that the climate is changing at a rapid rate and that we are contributing to it. How much man contributes may be debated? How much is part of a natural cycle may be debated
But the question is.....why do we want to continue to dump shit into the air?
What do we gain from that?
cost benefit. Something a business mind understands.
If there is no gain, it does not mean trhere will NOT be a great loss if we make changes.
Truth is....the technology is not there yet to eliminate emiossions from cxombustible engines....and just as important...there is not world agreement to all make changes at once.
So for the US to make a change...and the civilized western world to make a change....but all other countires nopt make a change....we will do little to help the eartyh and likely put opurselves in a subordinate position to countries like China both economically and technologically.
No gain means nothing.....the question is what kind of loss will making a change create.
We had the same paradox in the late 60s. Businesses liked to dump shit in the rivers, they liked to burn off whatever they wanted...it was cheaper and gave them a bigger profit
They raised the same smokescreens
"I can't affect that huge river or lake"
"I am just one of many poluters....I shouldn't have to stop until everyone stops"\
"We need to do more studies"
We made some hard decisions in the late 60s and early 70s. Unleaded fuel for cars, catalytic converters. The runoff from businesses was monitored and they were fined until they stopped it
Business raised the same flags...."It will cost jobs"
But we are all better off for it. We still benefit from the hard decisions we made 40 years ago