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Yeah, you heard me. Man, is local, Climate is Global.
(Let's see how many AGW'ers stop reading right there and scream about Man is all over the globe and other silly non-sense.)
The more localized you get, the more of an effect MAN has on his environment. Let's take Joe. Joe buys a plot of land that was otherwise untouched by the hand of man. He changes the landscape by clearing trees, planting new ones, building a home. He has impacted the Environment.
But what Joe has done doesn't go much further than that.
Now let's say Joe, instead of buying that land for a home, decides to be a farmer! He clears it, he cultivates it, he uses the land. Again, his impact is on his land and not much further.
Do you see the trend here?
Now get LOTS of Joes together. You get a town or a city, New York City for example, heavily impacts its surroundings. Go 20-30 miles east... not really. Except, of course, at Night you get light pollution.
Mans impact is and always will be localized. SOME things DO affect wider regions. Chernobyl created a huge radiation dead zone. But life still goes on. China has few if any Air Regulations, but even there the impact is in and around Cities.
Don't you people see?
The problem isn't some Global Climatic DISASTER waiting to happen unless "WE ACT NOW". It never has been. It's about fixing things around the LOCAL area. But that's not very profitable... monetarily or politically. What power or money is gained by getting people to clean up the town park? Or to get the local plant to clean up its direct impact?
Not much. Cause the people in Ohio aren't impacted by the people in Iowa. But convince them they ARE, and suddenly you have a CAUSE, you have a CAUSE that you can profit from. A Cause you can derive political power from.
And that's all AGW is, a CAUSE. It's being exploited for the gain of greedy, selfish people. It's always been that way. Instead of people worrying about the little stuff around them, no no, that's not enough. Now it's GLOBAL disaster waiting to happen and it's all our fault unless WE ACT NOW!
Don't you SEE? I do, I always have. That's why the consensus science claims don't move me. Science isn't done by committee. That's what the calls to GLOBAL ACTION repel me. It's not the GLOBE that needs help, it's localized issues that need to be cared about.
But what happens is people STOP caring. Cause really, it's not their problem, it's the Government's problem, it's someone else's problem. It's not about what car you drive that has low emissions or high gas mileage. That doesn't do anything.
It's not laws and regulations nor is it treaties and scaremongering that will make things on this planet better. It's worrying about the things that actually matter. We can't change the Climate, we can't control it, effect or bother it.
WE can effect our immediate surroundings. Worry about that, and watch life get better.
(Let's see how many AGW'ers stop reading right there and scream about Man is all over the globe and other silly non-sense.)
The more localized you get, the more of an effect MAN has on his environment. Let's take Joe. Joe buys a plot of land that was otherwise untouched by the hand of man. He changes the landscape by clearing trees, planting new ones, building a home. He has impacted the Environment.
But what Joe has done doesn't go much further than that.
Now let's say Joe, instead of buying that land for a home, decides to be a farmer! He clears it, he cultivates it, he uses the land. Again, his impact is on his land and not much further.
Do you see the trend here?
Now get LOTS of Joes together. You get a town or a city, New York City for example, heavily impacts its surroundings. Go 20-30 miles east... not really. Except, of course, at Night you get light pollution.
Mans impact is and always will be localized. SOME things DO affect wider regions. Chernobyl created a huge radiation dead zone. But life still goes on. China has few if any Air Regulations, but even there the impact is in and around Cities.
Don't you people see?
The problem isn't some Global Climatic DISASTER waiting to happen unless "WE ACT NOW". It never has been. It's about fixing things around the LOCAL area. But that's not very profitable... monetarily or politically. What power or money is gained by getting people to clean up the town park? Or to get the local plant to clean up its direct impact?
Not much. Cause the people in Ohio aren't impacted by the people in Iowa. But convince them they ARE, and suddenly you have a CAUSE, you have a CAUSE that you can profit from. A Cause you can derive political power from.
And that's all AGW is, a CAUSE. It's being exploited for the gain of greedy, selfish people. It's always been that way. Instead of people worrying about the little stuff around them, no no, that's not enough. Now it's GLOBAL disaster waiting to happen and it's all our fault unless WE ACT NOW!
Don't you SEE? I do, I always have. That's why the consensus science claims don't move me. Science isn't done by committee. That's what the calls to GLOBAL ACTION repel me. It's not the GLOBE that needs help, it's localized issues that need to be cared about.
But what happens is people STOP caring. Cause really, it's not their problem, it's the Government's problem, it's someone else's problem. It's not about what car you drive that has low emissions or high gas mileage. That doesn't do anything.
It's not laws and regulations nor is it treaties and scaremongering that will make things on this planet better. It's worrying about the things that actually matter. We can't change the Climate, we can't control it, effect or bother it.
WE can effect our immediate surroundings. Worry about that, and watch life get better.