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Originally Posted by Robbie
Nope, but when alarmists are saying this is the GREATEST THREAT to humanity...
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Forget "alarmists". Let's assume that for now, Alarmists post inflated crap online as click bate. I've seen it on Right-wing sites, and I've seen it on left wing sites too. So let's say all that crap just cancels each other out and forget that term for now.
Scientists at Nasa, Noaa and other places say the earth is warming up thanks to CO2 and other gasses, and that the results can be bad. Why not take steps to reduce the amount of gasses we put into the air? Man-made or not, the gasses are piling up, aren't they?
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Originally Posted by Robbie
.then I would assume that the govt.'s would actually DO something.
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Why wait for the governments? Some companies are already doing something about it, and we people can definitely do something about it too, right? Tell me exactly what we lose doing this. It seems to me we can gain a lot for almost no risk.
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What use is the economy if we are all dead?
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Good question! No use of course. Both sides agree, so this too should be removed from the discussion.
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But instead...the govt.'s are doing the exact OPPOSITE. Ramping up their own "carbon footprints" to new levels.
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If you're talking about the War machine, I agree, and that's too bad, but it still doesn't mean that there aren't other things that we can do, and that even the governments can do in other sectors. Look at what Germany and France have done. Even China's starting to come around.
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And as I said...just ONE aircraft carrier negates all of our cars.
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Not just Aircraft carriers. Container ships too like the Maersk Line pollute like crazy delivering goods to us from China. Then again, it's still cheaper, more fuel efficient, and pollutes less than moving all that stuff by car.
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And yet...the United States federal govt. keeps our overbloated military money machine running full throttle trying to rule the world.
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Agreed, but this is kind of a different subject. If we keep pulling arguments from everywhere, we'll never get anywhere.
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As I said earlier...the govt. either:
1. Knows this is bullshit and have created a new revenue stream with "carbon credit" trading.
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2. Have knowledge that it's even WORSE than we are being told and that there's nothing we can do about it...so why bother to stop putting out such HUGE emissions of the "evil" CO2?
Think about that for a minute. Does it make sense for the govt. to scream about it, and then their only response is to figure out ways to make money by carbon credits without having any real effect on the so-called "problem"?
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Robbie try looking at it like this: First, forget the government. Next, let's just talk about 1 item at a time. Maybe then we can get somewhere.
Peace.