The great divide isn't between race or class but geography

[SpankyMcFarland]

Climate change isn’t a globalist fantasy. We’re all going to have to deal with its local consequences no matter where we live. As too much how sacrifice each individual, sector or country is called upon to make, there will always be squawking, but that’s in the nature of things. 

[CdnFox]

40 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Climate change isn’t a globalist fantasy. We’re all going to have to deal with its local consequences no matter where we live. As too much how sacrifice each individual, sector or country is called upon to make, there will always be squawking, but that’s in the nature of things. 

But such squaking shouldn't be dismissed out of hand.

In the broadest terms we have two real choices with climate change - try to stop it or try to adapt to it.  Those who wish us to stop it would have to demonstrate that their ideas actually would.

[Michael Hardner]

42 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Climate change isn’t a globalist fantasy. We’re all going to have to deal with its local consequences no matter where we live. As too much how sacrifice each individual, sector or country is called upon to make, there will always be squawking, but that’s in the nature of things. 

The other thing that people are missing is that GDP per CAPITA rises.   Here's the graph in constant $

[August1991]

4 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Climate change isn’t a globalist fantasy. 

Fantasy? The oceans rising?

Barack Obama - who has two kids - bought a place in Massachusetts on the ocean.

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John Kerry, Justin Trudeau, Steven Guilbeault (and their various UN bureaucrats) fly around the world emitting CO2.

[RedDog]

Al Gore sprang for $11M on the California coast. He said in his Nobel Prize speech that state would vanish.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

The other thing that people are missing is that GDP per CAPITA rises.   Here's the graph in constant $

Yeah - that's got more to do with gov't expenditures which are part of gdp. See the blip around 1939? And it takes off again at the end of teh 60's (trudeau) and after that it just doesn't stop , just short little blips when conservatives get in.

 

[I am Groot]

On 5/10/2023 at 4:18 PM, SpankyMcFarland said:

Climate change isn’t a globalist fantasy. We’re all going to have to deal with its local consequences no matter where we live. As too much how sacrifice each individual, sector or country is called upon to make, there will always be squawking, but that’s in the nature of things. 

Climate change isn't a globalist fantasy. And yes, we're all going to have to deal with local consequences. However, while I agree with the stated problem I don't agree with the prescription for solving it. That is, lowering global CO2 sounds right. It's just not doable with present technology. And I most definitely do not agree with damaging our economy by making energy and transportation more expensive while 80% of the world is building coal plants. China alone has increased its CO2 production by almost a thousand times the amount Canada has managed to decrease ours. They need to keep building more coal plants to power all those factories that are leaving Canada, the US and other western countries that are increasing the cost of CO2 production, you see. Those factories are setting up shop in places like China, India and Mexico, that don't have any carbon taxes.