Countdown to disaster

The science is real. The threat is manifesting. Each year now the section of the US that I live in has more fires and higher temperatures. The smoke gets so bad we can hardly breathe at times. Next summer the area I live in could burn. The rainfall is down so much and has been for a while now, that the trees are literally dying. We can't just blame China and the other nations for the pollution. If we buy goods that comes from them, we contribute. If we fly on planes and sail on ships, they dump their garbage in the oceans. Our oceans are dying. Overpopulation is a problem. COVID is cutting some of it down. When the next spaceship stops in and asks me if I want to vacate the planet, I'll say yes and go with them.

It's not global warming we need to worry about,its population growth and movement plus religious and political extremism are the main worries for our planet .

It's a funny thing but it's not just upto this country to
reduce the nasty gases....
Has anyone seen or heard about the pollution coming out of India , China , South America. and America .
To name just a few, ........Yes we can all do our bit which includes taxes being charged and money wasted .

But until there is a global agreement which is kept
by evey country ........... Just carry on regardless.

What else is there .......

I had gas in a greenhouse once-boy did I ever clear that place out in a hurry! OMG-this just in! Everyone is dying ! Yes, from the day we are born, we start dying. Our only comfort? We are far enough up the food-chain, that we are simply not born to provide sustenance to those creatures which are larger and/or quicker than we are! Alright, enough silliness- I freely admit that we are "fouling ourselves out of our own nest" with excess carbon and plastic waste. I think we are slowly taking remedial steps on the carbon, the plastic-not so much! We really need to research better ways of recycling plastic, because, as we speak, we are eating, breathing and drinking tiny bits of plastic. Pattooie!

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I'm not particularly worried about climate change myself. I know that much of what has been reported in the name of science is being manipulated for political reasons. That doesn't mean I think we should disrespect our planet, however I understand that climate change will occur naturally regardless of what man does. Must man be so egocentric to believe everything is a result of his actions? Air pollution is real up to a point but political manipulators are bringing pseudoscience to the table with wild overblown falsehoods. Carbon dioxide (different entirely from carbon monoxide) is a naturally occurring substance that is essential to carbon based life forms. It is a carbon atom covelently bonded to two oxygen atoms. Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide. It is hardly a pollutant as claimed by some. We have too many well meaning folks too ready to believe in the bad science. The truth is according to the second law of thermodynamics the entire univers (and hence our planet) is in decay. We cannot stop it. And, essentially our planet will simply wear out, cool and become inhabitable. Why do you think NASA is working to bring mankind to other worlds? The good news is none of us will live to see our planet die. We are much more likely to destroy ourselves in a nuclear Holocaust first! This doesn't mean we do nothing but we need not shut down our clean coal plants, stop driving, or turn off the heat to our homes to save the planet. Earth will die as our sun will also far in the future. Overall in the grand scheme of millions or even billions of years what we do is actually of marginal effect. The real benefit in limiting actual pollutants is relative to the here and now. Less pollution allows us to live longer healthier lives. But, again the inevitable can only be delayed. As I mentioned to a friend the other day, I saw a billboard that claimed 60% of all people of a particular gender died of a specific disease and I quipped "100 % of people will die of something.". In other words if we totally cure everybody so that no person dies of a specific disease those folks will still eventually die of some other malady! We are not immortal and neither is our planet. Such is nature. We must avoid listening to the rabid sensationalized news media claims, half truths, misinformation, disinformation and foolishness they disseminate in micro bursts of noisy ingnorance to get their ratings. They are for the most part totally useless.

The biggest single cause of damage to the ozone layer is not cars or industry or fridges, but cows.!! They put more harmful gases into the atmosphere just through grazing. True all the others I mentioned do damage too and obviously need to have emissions reduced. More efficient cars and more renewable energy.
I am not a vegetarian, but if we all eat less beef, and reduced the cattle population massively, then that would greatly help the amount of gases causing the greenhouse effect.

That silly head of the Green Party said, during the televised debates that, 'climate change is the biggest threat we face.'
She has obviously not seen, or has chosen not to see, what Islamic Jihad has done to the middle east, and what it looks likely to do to Europe, if it isn't stopped, before it's too late.

Global Warming, there are actually a couple of factors at work here:
1- The earth's climate has been in a constant state of transition( evolution, if you will) since it's formation, even without human's polluting the atmosphere the climate would be evolving, though this natural transition took hundreds of thousands of years.
2-Whilst human's are not responsible for earth's evolving climate, their pollution has served greatly to accelerate this process, even were human's not so technology advanced and using wood to heat and cook, the mere population and usage of such fuel(wood) would contribute greatly to the acceleration of this natural transition.

Well Wilf, I'm not even nominally worried about global warming as it isn't happening. It's all a con and a hoax to tax us in order to subsidise the corrupt people who build the massively inefficient wind and wave turbines.
The climate has always warmed then cooled and the main culprit is the sun. Until we can control the sun we have no choice but to accept what the climate chucks our way.
Try reading The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science by Tim Ball PhD.