Clexit's a damn fine idea, thanks Thrumpster!
Really glad Trump backed away from the Paris Climate Accord, which would have amounted to little more than (as Stefan Molyneux mentions in the vid posted below) "Taking money from poor people in rich countries and sending it to rich people in poor countries". When studies show that not just Earth but in fact the entire solar system is warming, we must either lament the rise of SUV usage on Saturn or more rationally acknowledge that solar activity is the primary cause of climate change, and therefore all this global warming hysteria is but a massive hoax designed to enhance and expand globalist control... and by the way pilfer trillions from US taxpayers in the process.
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this is not just about the temperature. It's about the innovations that go into the energy sector. trump canceling the clima pact means that there is less pressure for searching green energy solutions. Again this is not just about the temperature. rivers are polluted and the air too. People are dying because of the pollution. Also in my opinion it is a good sign when almost all countries on earth come to an agreement. And then you just back out? If decisions like this would be made in a democratical manner then surely most of the people in the world would go for green energy solutions and all the innovations that come with it. But Trump is clearly not representing the people. Your sentence:"Taking money from poor people in rich countries and sending it to rich people in poor countries", just oversimplifies this completely.
Totally agree with you. It looks to me like a huge step back in innovation and the US handing over the leading role in both scientific and technological nation worldwide. We'll never catch up again. It feels like selling all your Steem when it was $0.0002 :(
hahaha nice metaphor. I think you are right. There will be much good stuff coming out of green energy innovations. Lots of side products, like better energy storage and better distribution etc.
I made a post to recap my thinking while I was reading and commenting here. You can read it here :)
I get what you're saying, but think the Paris deal was more about grandstanding and sucking America's coffers than pursuing real innovation. The fact is we already have technological advancements that could make a very real difference in our energy models, but corporations are sitting on them because retooling is too big a PITA, and they want to keep the old paradigms afloat as long as they can. I recall reading of carburetors that could get 100 MPG back before fuel injection, but we're still putzing about with mileage at 50 MPG at best.
The fact that all these governments are jumping on the climate change bandwagon is reason enough for me to smell a rat. With very few exceptions -- since when do politicians actually give a shit about anything except their own enrichment? To me this climate change theory remains not only unproven but suspect, but that aside, we should move away from fossil fuels because it's prudent to conserve resources, period.
Petroleum is a finite resource, renewables are not, and for that reason alone we should be moving in that direction with some intensive R&D. Ya think people 100, 200 years from now might have a use for... oh, I don't know... PLASTIC? Burning fossil fuels, no matter how clean we can do it, is still mass consumption of something that took millions of years for nature to create. It's boneheaded to linger in old paradigms of energy production when we could and should be moving forward.
But I see nothing in the Paris deal that facilitates that. America doesn't require an international accord to lead in innovation. We just need politicians to get out of the way, quit protecting their massive campaign contributors, and let technological advancements happen. We're not getting that, and Paris wouldn't do a thing to move the ball forward. Better to quit pretending it would, and save a few $T while we're at it.
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