I honestly can't take this girl seriously... Berating a bunch of ancient bureaucrats to change the world is not going to make much of a difference. The difference comes from everyday people making the decision to go greener in every aspect of life. Companies will always adjust to the needs and wants of consumers. And her whole point on profits and economic growth is totally flawed. Companies will only pursue green technologies like "co2 sucking" machines if they are PROFITABLE. Meanwhile, if you bring up nuclear energy as a zero emission alternative, these same environmental activist will turn their heads in disgust. Modernized nuclear energy could become an essential source of cleaner energy. Her writers definitely need to rethink their point on economic growth because they are not realizing the incentives of greener alternatives.
Good realistic point. Education is the key to this, but not simply by pushing false narratives on children in schools. That's counter productive and will lead to mistrust further down the road. If you'd remove the political slant it would go over better. I also don't think regulating and removing more rights by creating new laws is the answer. That just gives the people in charge more power and that leads to more potential for abuse of said power.
Take the way how the kids were removed from school or how everyone thinks Trump controls everything bad that happens in their lives. Well, people voted to give them this power. If you keep voting for Liberal policies you're just handing them more power and then when someone that's in power does something you dislike to you and you can't legally fight back it'll be your own damn fault.
A good example is the relaxing on the laws surrounding coal that the current administration made. Getting rid of laws is usually a good thing that in the end will work itself out. The Liberals cried foul, but you know what? Coal production and usage didn't skyrocket. People realize it's a dirty way to produce energy and don't want to support it. They did this all by themselves and without laws forcing them to do it only the way the Government wants them to.
Keep voting for Liberal policies, keep creating more regulations, keep voting away your freedoms, keep making more laws and keep trying to play God by controlling every aspect of peoples lives and you'll find out first hand how giving the Government such power has been and will be used in the past and the present and in your case future. I'm give you a hint, it doesn't usually end up going to well.
History just repeats itself. The players change, but the game remains the same. Take socialism for example. We know that is an archaic form of Government that's been tried and tested and proven to fail over and over again. It sounds pretty well in theory, but the theory doesn't take into account the "human" factor. You know, greed, envy, lust, lying, cheating, stealing. You throw those into the Utopian mix and we all know the end results. If not I suggest you do some research into our worlds history.
The thing about "going green" is that the politicians know that they can profit financially from this entire mass hysteria they're creating. For them that's the point. Use the manufactured crisis to gain money and power. We don't need them. We don't need to hand them power and we sure and hell don't need to pay them as they have no intention on even changing their own habits to help the environment.
Not polluting the environment should be common sense. Unless your a drunk or drug addict you probably don't throw trash around your own residence or pollute your own body. The Earth is like a giant a living organism and dumping toxins into the environment is going to have a negative effect. I just don't think that there's any justification for forcing the will of politicians on others based on limited data to make more laws and taxes. Take some personal responsibility for your own actions before you start trying to tell other people to do the same, but if you're going to try to tell other people what to do realize that you're probably not going to get what you want in every instance. Just, using the Government to force your will onto others when you can't get your own way can and will backfire on you.
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Because here is whats happening. Earth is getting warmer, oil is running out, China is overtacking everyone in society building.
Earth, at least in the short term, is warming up, but we're technically exiting an ice age, so what do you expect? So, since we've start to keep records, the Earth seems to be getting a little warmer, but no one can really tell us why. Cosmic radiation? Man made Global warming? Exiting the ice age? Volcanic activity? I'd say we need a few million more years to even start to get accurate information and by the looks of it and how we've outlived countless dire predictions we'll probably end up getting that information, but just like these clowns that's just speculation.
Everyone said we'd be out of oil long a long time ago and that societies would collapse and the world would have either ended or we'd be living in a barren waste land. I'm still waiting for that to actually happen, but they keep changing the date. I'm also waiting for the Biblical Apocalypse. Hey, at least the y2k bug, that was supposed to upend society didn't exist on some imaginary floating time scale.
China is an example of what happens when you're a communist country. If everyone adopted communism do you think we'd have a UN? They are an unchecked super power and communism gave them that position. Socialism usually leads to communism, so I don't think adopting either one, in the end, is going to help the environmental situation.