Green Subsidies don’t reduce carbon emissions much if at all.

I drive a hybrid. I also combine my trips so as to not have to make two trips when one will do. IMO, both are for more effective than somebody trying to force me to reduce my carbon footprint.
 

Brookswood said:
I drive a hybrid. I also combine my trips so as to not have to make two trips when one will do. IMO, both are for more effective than somebody trying to force me to reduce my carbon footprint.
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Such is the cynicism in the world today, and our desire to hate on authority of any kind, that there's an automatic attack on anyone trying to change anything. (imo). Let's be honest, you're not being forced to comply with these regulations. No-one is knocking down your door. To be fully effective, such policies require the entire planet to comply, and that's never going to happen.

I buy a lot of music, as I've mentioned elsewhere. I bought 7 Vinyl records last week. I now restrict myself to buying within the UK only. No importing records from Japan, the US, or mainland Europe. Sometimes I miss out on great deals, or finding a record I want is much tougher than it need be. I just got to a point where, mentally, I couldn't justify taking up room on a flight or ship just so I could listen to some music. That's my tiny attempt to do better. That and sorting the garbage, which is less fun than dying.
 
We have developed a practice of waiting to go to town for this or that. It is about 60 miles round trip. We are waiting to the last minute/day that we feel we can combine many needed items into one trip. We didn't use a car for 7 days last week. We have a upright freezer and two regular sized fridges with freezers. That is for those items. Then there is the pantry, and animal feed. But it usually depends on timing it with a RX pickup.
 

Jeff Bezos just took possession of his 5th jet, a G700. As an example do you think he cares about the environment. When Al Gore was distributing a documentary predicting the flooding of the nation from rising oceans he was also an investor in a company to buy and sell energy credits, and owned at least two seaside homes. Does that sound like sincerity? Safe bet though because the fact or fiction wouldn't be verified for at least a hundred years.
 
One source of clean, renewable, year-round electrical power is dams and their hydroelectric systems.

I saw an article yesterday that said environmental activists are calling for the destruction of all dams that are located on salmon migration pathways because the salmon population is critically low. It said the population has dropped 98%, but it didn't specify what year they're comparing the numbers to, or which species of salmon they're talking about.

Anyway, this article went on to say that these activists are are ignoring 2 important facts - that dams on salmon migration pathways were required to install salmon ladders 3 or 4 decades ago, and all those dams have at least one ladder, and that salmon populations have been on the rise ever since, and are currently classified as either safe or robustly recovering.

I haven't looked into it yet, but I did read that 4 hydroelectric dams have been destroyed so far, and at least one of them was on the Klamath River in Oregon.
 
squatting dog said:
It's not the opinion I disagree with.
I dislike being told that by somehow being conservative, I'm considered a liar and an idiot. If you can't understand that.... well nothing to add here, except I guess you belong in that column.
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Look, I don't know you so I don't know if Paladin's perspective applies to you or not. Perhaps a bad phrasing on Paladin's part, but on the other hand, we've had several/many years of watching and listening to people like Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson and the rest of his cohorts, who do exactly as accused. And those people have had millions of followers between them or each who take their cues from those kinds of people. So is it a stereotype? Sure, but there's a reason stereotypes happen. Are there exceptions to every stereotype? Absolutely. But the exceptions are rarely as noteworthy as the former and mostly have far fewer followers as a result.

I think that when we're aware of that kind of stereotype, it's far better to provide a rebuttal to it by our own attitudes and behaviours, rather than proving their point.
 

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