There natural cycles that substantially outweigh human impact, for instance there's an ice age every 100k years that far outweighs the diminutive impact mankind has had on global temp, I'm not saying pollution has had zero impact, just that it doesn't add up to enough to give up spray can deodorant and rechargeable batteries, a reasonable response would be to give people the option of paper or plastic, but making it a crime to give a customer a drinking straw, that's excessive and it's what the real issue is, anything the overreaching alphabet agencies can exploit for control and they can add regulations that carry the weight of law without the people voting and without congressional approval and recently a change made it possible to make changes to existing regulations that carry the weight of law without a comment and reflection period.
So if acme corp. wants to build that factory they have to pay an environmental impact tax...........think about that, the factory gets built anyway, and will have emission controls anyway, there's an impact study, ect....... yes it's just another way to take control bring about socialism without the peoples vote.
Why not simply pass federal laws requiring business to make reasonable attempts to run as clean of an operation as possible without selling permission to pollute.........because it's really about control, our politicians don't care about 100 years from now, so much that they do is very short sighted, but we are supposed to believe they care about future generations and a fraction of a degree of average temperature when natural cycles far outweigh this tiny change ?
It's not wrong to clean up, it's wrong to exploit a small issue for a large amount of control.
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This is not to say a lot of good hasn't been done, ending leaded gasoline was good and way overdue, automobile emission standards have helped air quality which does impact people in dense population areas, so please don't confuse pollution with global warming, I do think we need to control pollution, but global warming I am not sold on being such a big deal, not as important as clean food, air and water.
But if all the kids in school learn that ((( GLOBAL WARMING ))) is a serious threat that could end life on earth and soon!
Well then they can easily understand that we will have to give up many things and accept being told what to do to save the earth.......where to live to spread out the impact, what we can and can't have, how we must live and travel and when we can travel, there's no end to it.
However I don't think it's that big of a problem, if it is then before I go to jail for giving a customer a straw maybe we should talk about China ?
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Just searched and found tons of articles saying global warming is a big deal, and tons more saying global warming is not a big deal.
Here's one that say's it's not even really happening. >
https://townhall.com/columnists/joh...s-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-n1796423
Here's a video, just one of many>