I really don't know what to make of alleged "climate change". Sure, I believe it can impact us and fundamentally change or end life as we know. I get that and it's clear that the earth has cycled through things in the past. But, the idea that it's something we have any impact on or, more importantly, the ability to alter is my biggest issue. There's just too many agendas and $$$ at stake for me to believe anyone on either side. One small blip from the nuclear reactor we all depend on known as the Sun changes everything anyone asserts and we can't do a damn thing about it.
The "experts" can't even tell us why it's 6 versus 7 or 25 feet that we are supposed to distance to not pass an airborne virus. How can I trust them to tell me something so much more complicated? Sorry to be cynical, I just thought we were all supposed to be goners by now. The sliding calendar doesn't inspire confidence in the premise.
here I break with my conservative friends in a big way.
That the climate goes through regular cycles of warming and cooling has nothing to do with what is taking place at this time, and previous cycles have not taken place, for one thing, with billions of humans on the planet, most of them living in structures crowded on to coastlines around the world. Previous cycles for the most part took place over extended periods of time and nature adjusted accordingly. The rate of change at this time is not so slow as to allow such similar adjustments.
I am not about to say I know exactly what is happening and what should or should not be done about it as if I did know. But the idea that we are contributing to the current warming makes perfect sense, and what is frustrating to me is that we don't seem to have the common sense required to err on the safe side, if we are in fact erring. The smart thing to me is to assume that we are.
I've opined many times before that the things we need to do to be on the safe side of global warming will be only moderately inconvenient but will make the planet a better place to live. And by a better place to live I don't mean never being able to walk half a mile with out seeing a @#$%& windmill farm. There are better, more intelligent ways if we can overcome childish, irrational fears.
Technology has advanced to the point that if unleashed and supported earnestly, problems of our own making can be solved as well as many not of our own making. Instead we quibble and rationalize. We don't understand that we are only somewhat more intelliugent animals, and we just assume that our intelligence is so supreme that problems will simply disappear in the face of it. It doesn't work that way. We finally get in gear when we are forced to get in gear. We get in gear when the damage has been done. Sometimes I think I can't wait for the machines to take over.
Our planet seems too big to many of us to believe that we might actually have an impact on what happens to it. That is nothing less than crazy. Humans have been on the planet for less than a geologic blink of the eye. We are living on a precarious, tiny piece of dust in the cosmic scheme of things, whose natural systems, developed over billions of years, we should be treating with kid gloves and praying that we don't fvck it all up by taking it for granted.
But we do take it for granted because we are too complacent in our lives.
