The climate change narrative insists that we are all doing something wrong. The results, they say, will be catastrophic for the planet. What we are doing wrong is: activities that put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That all of our private and public behaviors result in carbon dioxide emissions is pretty much true, but is carbon dioxide emission the worst thing the western consumer is doing environmentally speaking?
When is the last time you heard discussion of any other form of industrial pollution? The production of EV batteries is environmentally catastrophic. Most consumer electronics carry a similar pollution cost. While activists shout for us to stop using cars, disposable consumer products continue to dominate the market.
I’m not a fan of doomers, but I am concerned that we are covering up real ecological damage with the specter of climate change. Thoughts?
100%. plastic waste alone has done more damage than carbon emissions ever could. Plastic allows us to have all of these cheap and """disposable""" items so they can be sold and resold to us. To regulate plastic is to regulate the disposable goods industry itself, something that every big business tycoon is heavily invested in one way or another. So of course there's no serious campaign against plastic.
but carbon emissions? not only are they basically invisible to the naked eye and therefore easily fudged, a sudden push to eliminate carbon emissions artificially creates a multitude of new industries. if one can be the initial investor in these new industries, and these industries become the norm, they will be billionaires.
that's all the government push for carbon emissions is about: riding the wave of a brand new industry. it's crony capitalism at its finest.
climate change is a naked power grab mechanism similar to any other crisis they've invented or engineered. it has the added benefit of not being easily questioned by normies as normies have no scientific skills anymore. we don't even effectively teach the scientific method anymore to your average retarded university grad.
it's not about "crony capitalism", or communism. It's about turning you into the obedient cattle-person you so desperately want to be and absolving you of all responsibility for it, and your desire to be cattle.
Plastic waste, at least what Western consumers produce, does no damage whatsoever - except the damage caused by the West's outsourcing of useless 'recycling' to countries with a waste problem.
See this great article by John Tierney