Diwundrin
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- Nth Coast NSW Australia
(Thanks for playin' Warri)God grant us the wisdom to decide whether we can and should act, or not. And the courage to do what we must.
Where we diverge is on the 'action'. I'm not sure what you feel you 'must' do, but I fail to see how juggling carbon trading prices is going to do a single solitary thing in the real world. The 'action' is all happening in the financial world. Putting a price on carbon (do they mean CO2?) just turns it into the equivalent of poker chips, it doesn't reduce the overall output by more than spit's worth. What really p*sses me off about the carbon tax is the 10% skim paid to the dealer. The UN! We're told we're paying more on everything to stop the climate changing but that 10 percent doesn't go into 'greener' infrastructure', or even 'recompensing' the poor for the tax they shouldn't have had to pay in the first place is it? It goes into the travelling cocktail party funds of the UN! That is stopping climate change exactly how again? Every time you pour figures over me I lose your point of what 'taking action' alludes to.
I know my way of wording my arguments border silly, the whole thing is silly, the way it's being reported is silly, and being serious about it merely gives the farce they've turned it into a gravitas it doesn't deserve.
Sometimes a spoof is more enlightening in revealing the kernel of truth than a serious lecture if you take my meaning. That's why cartoons are so successful.
We need to see the silliness to be able to appreciate the things about it that really should be taken care of instead twittering about the poor drowning polar bears on gadgets which were manufactured by causing the very emissions they blame for melting the polar bears' ice in the first place. How silly do you wanna get?
As silly as expecting the Greenies and teenage twittering planet savers to give up their smartphones, air-cons, TVs, fridges, cars to reduce the emissions of making them? Or is it just a handful of industrial magnates who are supposed to carry the blame for it all??
That's presuming of course that what you believe, and I'm agnostic at best about, is true, that climate warming is caused by humans at all.
You may accept there is proof enough for this particular change but I want to hear what caused all the others over the last few billion years before I draw a conclusion.
.Paradoxically
Yes. Now there's a word to conjure with. There seems to be a lot of that involved in "the science."