Wait, how did thread go from indoctrination of kids, to renewable energy? lols
I'm just waiting for the flat earther's to wade in on this. Full lunacy will have then descended on the Temp
Wait, how did thread go from indoctrination of kids, to renewable energy? lols
https://www.project-syndicate.org/c...ism-scaring-children-by-bjorn-lomborg-2019-03In the Western world, decades of climate-change exaggeration have produced frightened children, febrile headlines, and grand political promises that aren’t being delivered. We need a calmer approach that addresses climate change without scaring us needlessly and that pays heed to the many other challenges facing the planet.
Man we're way past the point of being scared into action, the consequences for the planet have already started to become plainly visible. Just watch 'Our Planet' on Netflix for examples.In the Western world, decades of climate-change exaggeration have produced frightened children, febrile headlines, and grand political promises that aren’t being delivered. We need a calmer approach that addresses climate change without scaring us needlessly and that pays heed to the many other challenges facing the planet.
Also, I dont have netflix.We need a calmer approach that addresses climate change without scaring us needlessly and that pays heed to the many other challenges facing the planet.
Well, suffice it to say it's a David Attenborough-narrated documentary, and for a kindly old educator, he's not fucking around any more when it comes to climate change. In one episode there's like three solid minutes of footage where walruses are falling off cliffs to their deaths because of ice melt. As I said: plainly-visibly consequences.Also, I dont have netflix.
As someone who's classmates actually went to the demonstration from the first video, I might give some insight. There's a lot of discussion about it going on in Germany. Especially conservative politicians criticise them for being hypocritical (always buying new clothes and smartphone, wanting to travel by plane, …) and of course there's the far right which continues to deny climate change. But there are also parents writing apolgies for their children and teachers preparing for the demonstrations in class. Some people including a friend of mine see this just as a excuse to not go to school for people who attend these protests.
My personal stance on this is that, even if people take this as an excuse, they'll continue to have an excuse until the politics start to move. It's simply stupid how the (German) political landscape is unable to cope with this, besides attacking protest on a formal level.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/c...neoliberal-policy-west-by-diane-coyle-2019-04As lifestyles in the world's developing economies improve drastically, many in the advanced economies are seeing their wellbeing deteriorate – a trend that automation will only exacerbate. Without fundamental change in the framework of public policymaking, it is difficult to imagine a prosperous future in these societies.
CAMBRIDGE – Despite ever-improving conditions for millions of people around the world – documented by entities like the University of Oxford’s Our World in Data and highlighted by scholars like Steven Pinker – popular discontent is on the rise in many places. The reason is simple: whereas the first trend is being driven by low- and middle-income countries, the second is concentrated in high-income countries.
Throughout the developed world, conditions for many workers are deteriorating, with no recovery in sight. Income inequality is near historic highs, wealth inequality is even higher, and economic insecurity is widespread.
If you actually try to look for the facts you'll see the reality is very different and there's no scientific evidence of such claims that humans are causing climate change.
This is a complicated one. So I gave it the most outrageous title I could think of.
I do believe that our existence on Earth effects the climate. I don't think that climate change is a hoax. However, I think it's been used to control other people and keep the rich wealthy and certain political players in power. Your video reminds me of those "doomsday" scenarios (supposed documentaries) produced by the Liberal media back in the late 80's and 90's that claimed we've reached the tipping point in oil production and that we would have a barren landscape and total disaster would strike by 2010.
Yeah, climate change is definitely real because that's just how the planet works.
Now there's no solid evidence that it has any connection to human activity.
If you watch the first five minutes of this, he currently is more into producing horror pron, with barely true statements ("ITS GOING TO BE DESASter (if we continue on our current trajectory)" - which we arent, "Its even progressing faster, than many believed", "there isn't much time left">intercut into>the science is now clear, with a countdown orchestra tune undercut and other FUN moments like that.)BBC One - Climate Change - The Facts https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00049b1 David Attenborough explores the science of, and potential solutions to, climate change.