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Originally Posted by Ohio
So . . . are you a true believer or just another climate hypocrite like Ozone Al?
Have you sold your car, started riding the bus, and stopped drinking out of straws? What have you personally done to stop the rising ocean and save mother earth?
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I'm not going to put my personal habits on display for judgment by a person that won't even disclose his real name.
Your logic is bass ackwards. The fact that medical doctors smoke tobacco doesn't prove that doesn't cause cancer. If Al Gore flies in jet planes that doesn't prove they don't contribute to the greenhouse effect.
What I do as an individual isn't going to significantly affect the climate change problem. I have consistently voted for political candidates who favor limiting greenhouse gases. Yet I'm inclined to agree with ZNP that none of them have done enough to solve the problem.
From the 1992 Rio Earth summit to the 2015 Paris conference there was supposedly a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew and the effects global warming became an observable fact of life. And that's despite a growing body of scientific evidence for more than 40 years.
At 7.7 billion people and growing, the world population is unsustainable. Politicians who address that problem won't get elected. Our failure to prevent or even respond significantly to climate change reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason the paralysis of our politics and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities.
The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places and ways of life will disappear in the coming years and decades. If the governments of the world got serious about it right now it would probably take a hundred years to reverse the climate situation. People seldom think that far ahead. Most of the fat cats in charge are all about short-term profits.
If the cooperative efforts of liberal democratic governments throughout the world don't deal with climate change, totalitarian dictators will arise to enact Draconian measures against ordinary people. The glaciers that supply water for millions of people are drying up. The famine war and pestilence the drives immigration is likely to get worse. Walls won't stop them.
Environmental disaster is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren to deal with. A growing number of them are aware of the enormity of the problem and are demonstrating to try to get the attention of the powerful. I stand with them.