You totally glossed over the idea that we can innovate our way out of it.
This is my big suggestion. Spend money on trying to think a way out, rather than believing we can just turn off the flow and stop the worst (as if we could turn the flow off in the first place).
Oh, you mean like legislating R&D? California tried to do that some years ago, tried to add a per gallon fee on all oil wells that produce more than 10barrels of oil/day. We are, as it stands, the ONLY oil-producing state in the nation that does NOT have any kind of per-barrel fee structure that goes into state coffers, gotta get that out of the way, first.
So, a proposition came up that would have added this fee onto all wells producing more than 10 barrels/day, and we, the idiots that we collectively are, voted it down (just like 37, and for the same fucking reasons why, we don't want to pay more). The fees collected would have gone specifically into certain programs, starting with funding university R&D on alternative energies, as well as building up hydrogen infrasctructure. I think there was also something in there for the... aw, shit, what are they called? The cars that follow a magnetic track. I can't remember the number of the proposition or the year it was introduced, it was after '05, though, I'm pretty sure.
In any event! California voted it down because we vote by commercial advertising. The commercial advertising 'informed' them that they'd be paying more gas taxes, so, it's voted down. The commercials, of course, didn't give the voters all the information. Like that niggling little fact that all other oil-producing states charge per barrel production fees, yet their gas prices aren't really higher than what we see in California.
Same thing happened with 37, the GMO-labeling bill. People heard it would add $400 to their grocery bill, so they voted it down without ever thinking ONCE to actually check out whether or not that 'factoid' might be true. Never once putting on a thinking cap to consider, "Hey... my food's already labeled, it would take absolutely NOTHING, given the paper trails created from farm to manufacturer, to simply add GMO information onto the label."
Nope, we can't have anything resembling critical thinking, now can we? That would lead to questioning.
Jesus Holy Lord God Mary & Joseph! Did I just go on a major rant/ramble, or what? Morning coffee & joints sometimes lead there.
No sign of global warming here......fucking -20 temps
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Calling it global warming is not only buying into the media's presentation of the issue, it's a misnomer at
best.
It should be rightfully called climate change or shift, and what we're experiencing in terms of
more extreme weather is absolutely true. The question is, since when? The young man I mentioned previously believes the changes began with the advent of using coal and other fossil fuels (the Industrial Age).
