12-07-2020, 02:52 AM
(12-07-2020, 02:05 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-06-2020, 11:44 AM)David Horn Wrote:(12-06-2020, 01:19 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: If you believe the Republicans are to blame for climate change, you're as a nuts as those who believed the Jews were responsible for everything wrong with Germany. Also, you should check your facts because China and India and Russia are the largest contributors of emissions. We're about the same as Europe despite us using more energy than Europe. Our portion of a continent was built for commerce...
Well, not quite. We're #2, with 4% of the world's population. When you look at per capita contribution and ability to do better, we stand at the top of the list with the UK and Germany all roughly as bad. China and India aren't even in contention in that context.
The vast majority of the world lives in shacks and huts and dumps raw sewage and garbage into rivers and streams or lakes. As far as modern countries/developed nations as they say, we are one of the best considering our size and population.
That is not an excuse for our American carbon footprint. What is now the Developed World used to drain its sewage, untreated, into rivers and streams. That led to cholera outbreaks. A city like New York could get away with that when it had a small population... and so could Mumbai until it became a giant city...
Global warming threatens to inundate huge amounts of low-lying real estate, much of it in places that now live in shacks and huts... and they typically lack the means to go elsewhere, even in their own countries. Resettling them will be great costs to countries incapable of raising the tax revenue for doing so. Add to this... it will disrupt much of the agriculture that makes people able and willing to do work. Global warming can starve people by inundating farmland that feeds the people in their newly-developing manufacturing sectors, and by disrupting the growth of crops finely tuned to climatic conditions that now exist. You may hate blizzards, but they protect soil moisture for the delicate crops germinating or starting their times of rapid growth in the spring. Unseasonable warm spells in February and March can start some crops such as "winter wheat"... the wheat with the highest protein value. In case you are curious, there are soft and hard varieties, the soft wheat ground to make the most common flours, and the hard one (durum) going heavily into pasta. A late-winter warm spell can get the grain to start prematurely only to expose it to more normal winter weather.
City-slickers like you get complacent about the food supply when shortages don't happen. When they do, life gets nasty. Food shortages create political chaos and disrupt economies. Global warming will make a mess out of the world's food supply.
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Global warming can mess the world up even worse than Marxism-Leninism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
