In the U.S., it's all going to hell. The economy is heading for a major crash so climate change is far from most people's minds right now. I think about it all the time now. It's obvious for anyone who wants to look. I have taken certain steps here but there is only so much I can do. It's been in ordinarily hot here this summer and my A/C has been running hard. So much so that it even surpassed the output from my solar panels.
I am very worried about the future, what little of it I still have above ground. For you young people, things are going to continue to become much worse in your lifetimes. As I noted in a recent podcast, the world has gone past the point of no return, according to the world's leading climate scientists. One of whom is a Canadian.
There are no good answers any more. All we can do is figure out how to adapt as best as we can.
Northern Ontario has changed so much in my 58 years. So many people claim this is normal climate change and that it’s a liberal scam and that I am being a Libtard. Could they be telling me the truth?
They most certainly aren't. The climate *does* change, but it takes centuries to shift, not a few decades. The rate at which the world is warming and weather patterns are being altered is not a natural phenomenon.
It's very much the result of human activities and carbon emissions. We've known about Greenhouse Gas causing warming since the 1850s, we've been tracking it for a very long time. It exploded into common knowledge in the 1970s when it became too obvious to ignore, but world governments are still dragging their feet.
It's mostly corporate lobbying getting in the way, giving governments an incentive to keep working with the fossil fuel industry because it's where the money is. Renewable energy contracts keep getting shuttered as a result, like what Trump's up to with offshore wind farming.
In the U.S., it's all going to hell. The economy is heading for a major crash so climate change is far from most people's minds right now. I think about it all the time now. It's obvious for anyone who wants to look. I have taken certain steps here but there is only so much I can do. It's been in ordinarily hot here this summer and my A/C has been running hard. So much so that it even surpassed the output from my solar panels.
I am very worried about the future, what little of it I still have above ground. For you young people, things are going to continue to become much worse in your lifetimes. As I noted in a recent podcast, the world has gone past the point of no return, according to the world's leading climate scientists. One of whom is a Canadian.
There are no good answers any more. All we can do is figure out how to adapt as best as we can.
Northern Ontario has changed so much in my 58 years. So many people claim this is normal climate change and that it’s a liberal scam and that I am being a Libtard. Could they be telling me the truth?
They most certainly aren't. The climate *does* change, but it takes centuries to shift, not a few decades. The rate at which the world is warming and weather patterns are being altered is not a natural phenomenon.
It's very much the result of human activities and carbon emissions. We've known about Greenhouse Gas causing warming since the 1850s, we've been tracking it for a very long time. It exploded into common knowledge in the 1970s when it became too obvious to ignore, but world governments are still dragging their feet.
It's mostly corporate lobbying getting in the way, giving governments an incentive to keep working with the fossil fuel industry because it's where the money is. Renewable energy contracts keep getting shuttered as a result, like what Trump's up to with offshore wind farming.