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Interesting, pretty impressive stuff in the Uk regarding reducing greenhouse gases.
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@jegga Great article.
I'd argue climate alarmism could very well be a bigger issue than climate change itself.The orangutan attacking the digger is a great example.
But why are Borneo’s forests being cut down? The reason, as Attenborough said, is palm oil, a lucrative crop used in products ranging from soap to biscuits. Unfortunately, he left out the final stage of the argument.
Half of all the millions of tons of palm oil sent to Europe is used to make ‘biofuel’, thanks to an EU directive stating that, by 2020, ten per cent of forecourt fuel must come from ‘renewable’ biological sources. Malaysia says this has ‘created an unprecedented demand’.
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@Rembrandt said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@jegga Great article.
I'd argue climate alarmism could very well be a bigger issue than climate change itself.Was just reading this earlier today...
Climate Activism: An Ideology in Search of a Justification
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2019
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[A]pocalyptic claims were commonplace at the time of the first Earth Day event in 1970, when environmentalists confidently predicted a complete exhaustion of the world’s oil supply by the year 2000. In subsequent years the environmentalist movement en masse adopted the logic of the famously failed Malthusian doomsayer Paul Ehrlich to suggest an imminent death spiral in the oil-based-energy market, setting a deadline for the global conversion away from fossil fuels.
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@jegga putting a child, especially a mentally ill child, front and centre of a political campaign is absolutely reprehensible.
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@No-Quarter said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@jegga putting a child, especially a mentally ill child, front and centre of a political campaign is absolutely reprehensible.
I’m sure her parents who are both in the entertainment business have their child’s best interests at heart . What could possibly go wrong?
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@No-Quarter said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
I don't think this is giving climate change campaigners the credibility they think it does...
I only read the headline ...
... d'oh
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The end is nigh! We only have 10 years left people! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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@Rembrandt said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
The end is nigh! We only have 10 years left people! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
That's what they said 10 years ago. Where are all those climate refugees btw? Surely Tuvalu should be underwater by now.
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That's it guys. 30 years left until total extinction....and I wonder why anti-Trump /Brexit protesters seem so deranged and violent.
If you're pro Trump then you must be anti the environment and want the world to burn..kind of legitimizes violence for the greater good. I wonder how far off murdering in the name of the environment is? One recent murderer hinted at it.
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@Rembrandt said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Ya what now? Air polution is racist?
Of course it is. Christ it must be a barrel of laughs working at the Guardian. Straight white dudes must have to provide proof of neutering before entering the premises.
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Activists using climate change as a humanitarian excuse to justify smuggling boatloads of Africans into Europe. Good article.
The Coming Migration out of Sub-Saharan Africa
Almost the entire population of Italy, it seems, spent the last week of June watching a boat arrive from across the Mediterranean. It was the Sea-Watch 3, a Netherlands-registered ship funded by progressive philanthropists and captained by Carola Rackete, a 31-year-old German climate-change activist.
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In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign minister, the Social Democrat Heiko Maas, backed Rackete against the Italian authorities. “Saving human lives is no crime,” he said.
If Rome and Berlin have been transfixed by a nautical incident involving only a few dozen African seafarers, it is for a simple reason: There are a billion more where those came from. And how Europe addresses African migration is going to determine what the population of the continent looks like a generation from now.
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Smith begins by laying out some facts. Africa is adding people at a rate never before seen on any continent. The population of sub-Saharan Africa alone, now about a billion people, will more than double to 2.2 billion people by mid-century, while that of Western Europe will fall to a doddering half billion or so. We should note that the figures Smith uses are not something he dreamed up while out on a walk — they are the official United Nations estimates, which in recent years have frequently underestimated population shifts.
The closer you look, the more disorienting is the change. In 1950 the Saharan country of Niger, with 2.6 million people, was smaller than Brooklyn. In 2050, with 68.5 million people, it will be the size of France. By that time, nearby Nigeria, with 411 million people, will be considerably larger than the United States. In 1960, Nigeria’s capital, Lagos, had only 350,000 people. It was smaller than Newark. But Lagos is now 60 times as large as it was then, with a population of 21 million, and it is projected to double again in size in the next generation, making it the largest city in the world, with a population roughly the same as Spain’s.
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Lots of global Amazon hysteria this week...
Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It's The 'Lungs Of The World,' Is Wrong
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“The lungs of the Earth are in flames,” said actor Leonardo DiCaprio. “The Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen,” tweeted soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. “The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire,” tweeted French President Emanuel Macron.
And yet the photos weren’t actually of the fires and many weren’t even of the Amazon. The photo Ronaldo shared was taken in southern Brazil, far from the Amazon, in 2013. The photo that DiCaprio and Macron shared is over 20 years old. The photo Madonna and Smith shared is over 30. Some celebrities shared photos from Montana, India, and Sweden.
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@Salacious-Crumb That might teach some people that using celebrities as news sauces isn't wise, nor presidents that tweet.
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