RE: A kid on my childhood street and Trump
December 18, 2016 at 1:13 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2016 at 1:49 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(December 18, 2016 at 12:47 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: We already know that stuff is bad for the environment regardless of whether or not it changes the climate. If there is a cleaner way of doing things, we should try to take that approach anyway. Even if climate change wasn't a thing.
That's an extremely naive view. How is CO2 "bad for the environment regardless of whether or not it changes the climate"? If it doesn't change the climate, then who cares? It'll just get used up by plants over time.
Humans will affect the environment, one way or another. There's just a great - and growing - number of us and we need a lot of sh*t. Saying that we just have to be doing things in "cleaner way" is meaningless, if you don't know what the "cleaner way" is. And if man-made climate change doesn't exist - a lot of people will lose jobs and a lot of money will be spent for nothing. That money could help feed the starving, or develop cancer treatments.
The reason we have smart people, who study the environment, is so that we know what the most pressing dangers are. Science id not a democracy. And stupid people - especially those with a proven track record of delusion - shouldn't have a say in this.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
