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As a follow up to the Stockholm Environment Conference of 1972 studies predicted most of the consequences we are now see playing out all around the world and in particular reduced rainfall in the south of Western Australia ( where I'm now living) resulting in forest dry out , more fierce bush fires , a couple of which I've had to personally confront and less run off into our very important collection dams. For example last month saw the lowest ever July rainfall ever recorded since 1900.
Despite this evidence piling up and the fact that we are surpassing those prediction figures much sooner than ever imagined we still have some misguided folk saying it's all just a lot of 'Fake News'.
As a follow up to the Stockholm Environment Conference of 1972 studies predicted most of the consequences we are now see playing out all around the world and in particular reduced rainfall in the south of Western Australia ( where I'm now living) resulting in forest dry out , more fierce bush fires , a couple of which I've had to personally confront and less run off into our very important collection dams. For example last month saw the lowest ever July rainfall ever recorded since 1900.
Despite this evidence piling up and the fact that we are surpassing those prediction figures much sooner than ever imagined we still have some misguided folk saying it's all just a lot of
'Fake News'.
You read the last three comments, and you have to wonder WTF some on the Right (I'm looking at you WY, MT, ID, western OR/WA/CA, NV, AZ, ND, SD, NE....) are thinking. I get the whole "freedom" and "independence" thing, but we have no water and fire/smoke are destroying everything around you. Why won't anyone stand up and say "we need to pull our collective heads out of our asses... Fuck Trump and his rhetoric".
I read a story today that the world has lost 1 months worth of oil production since the start of the Iran war at the end of February. The world is adjusting to higher prices... although it may not be sustainable. If anyone in the administration had half a brain, they would re-instate the rebates for electric vehicles, re-invest in the alternative energy they shut down, and sell green energy as the lemonade we made out of our lemon of a war....
But that would mean some sort of alignment with the "Green New Scam", and everyone knows NOTHING created by democrats can be supported.
We truly get the government we deserve. Look what being stupid is doing for us now. At least those tariffs on the Canadians for the smoke they sent our way is going to get them in line.
" Why won't anyone stand up and say "we need to pull our collective heads out of our asses... Fuck Trump and his rhetoric"."
The problem with getting people to pay attention to global warming is that it's such a huge, slow-moving problem in opposition to our petroleum-based consumerist society. Combating global warming is attacked as doomsaying and driving us into poverty.
As for Trump: the curse of his presidency is that, using the hockey metaphor, he skates to where the puck is and not where it's going to be. No future planning, no interest in the environment or conservation.
GW Bush fixed on beliefs about progress and public benefit and would not change them in face of contradictory evidence. Trump doesn't even have those beliefs. He just wants to live in the 80s.
How can anyone think such a man is going to improve their lives when he doesn't give a damn about them? Doesn't Trump's billions in corruption and his fixation on monuments to himself shake their faith?
It's a solid argument.... unless you pay homeowners insurance or taxes, in which case you're getting the bill anyway.
Ounce of prevention...pound of cure... pure
It was about 10 years ago that a climate expert I know said it was too late to prevent major climate impacts and we are basically fucked, our kids and grandkids are certainly fucked. (maybe not an exact quote).
Every indication since then is that he was probably being optimistic.
I expect that we will find that things are getting worse much faster than presented. Partially due to the experts being careful not to overstate their case and partly because of right wing regressive policies globally.
On a related point, most Americans seem blissfully unaware of how much they are shielded from global petroleum prices and how much more energy they use than other developed nations.
