It might well alarm scientists but there's a large contingent on this board who will just write it off as alarmist..

On 4/25/2023 at 12:07 AM, ozimoron said:

It might well alarm scientists but there's a large contingent on this board who will just write it off as alarmist..

....and continue to be totally oblivious to their highly destructive general lifestyles and cultural manner. 

We speak of and discuss, valiantly, about the sky is falling - yet do little to practice our protest or dramatically adjust the way in which we exist. 

4 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

....and continue to be totally oblivious to their highly destructive general lifestyles and cultural manner. 

We speak of and discuss, valiantly, about the sky is falling - yet do little to practice our protest or dramatically adjust the way in which we exist. 

What have you done to cool the water.....????

23 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

....and continue to be totally oblivious to their highly destructive general lifestyles and cultural manner. 

We speak of and discuss, valiantly, about the sky is falling - yet do little to practice our protest or dramatically adjust the way in which we exist. 

It's really beyond the ability of individuals to do much, especially if they are poor which is most people. A few wealthy people who own their own home and can afford to install solar systems and buy EV's won't even make a dent. We need to concentrate on the big ticket items like power stations, removing subsidies for fossil fuels and deforestation.

 

That involves global cooperation which are words that I know are anathema to the right wing but we simply live on one small planet and it only takes a small brain to figure out that we need to pull together.

 

So, if you mean we as a population then we are in fierce agreement. If you mean we as individuals then you are just not seeing the elephant in the room. Curiously, many folks like to blame the single country doing the most to combat climate change because it has a huge population and is still a developing nation which means total emissions are still climbing as they are in all developing nations. Even China has set deadlines and targets for emission reduction which is more than some developed nations. The thing is that highly developed nations caused this problem and are highly developed because they got in early and did the most damage, often causing the damage in the developing nations which they controlled. Developed nations need to use their wealth to help developing nations move away from fossil fuels. Nationalism just won't cut it to solve a global problem.