Climate Change

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by awareness

That's why we elect climate deniers : to bring the Lord back. We want it so bad we don't care if every soul dies ; of the neighbors Jesus instructed us to love.

Do the math. 8 billion people, of those 7 billion are not going to worry about Climate change when to their calculation they didn't cause the problem and they are living hand to mouth. Of the 1 billion people left who are the biggest polluters, they are on a treadmill that can't stop. Their economy has to grow by 1-2% per year to avoid recession and depression. They also have a massive installed base of infrastructure depending on fossil fuel that they cannot afford to shutter. The idea that Al Gore, much less Hillary Clinton would have made a difference is completely unrealistic and ignores the math, the economics and the political reality in the US. It has taken us close to 200 years to go from the industrial revolution in its infancy when steam pumps were used to pump out mines, to climatic catastrophe. You have to go back a long way in history before you can actually find a leader who actually could have averted this disaster. When Solomon was mining ore on an industrial level he also needed to pump water out. Had they invented the steam engine at that time (there were steam engines designed as toys and novelties in ancient Greece) then Israel could have gone through the industrial revolution during the 400 years from Solomon to the Babylonian invasion. They were sitting on an ocean of oil. Imagine the Babylonians riding in on horses to discover Israel after 400 years of industrialization.

The US represents about 5% of the world's population. Even if we discover cleaner technology, the car companies and other companies sell their old factory parts to the developing nations. The problem is not Trump, or Gore, or Clinton. The problem is this system that put us on a highway that led straight off a cliff.