Sure. Yet the climate change narrative being pushed is total bullshit. They also seem to have forgotten what "Weather" is. They also blame things that have nothing to do with climate upon climate change. It is just more Fear nonsense.
Nothing scientific about it at all. That should be obvious when you can be banned, silenced, and fired for asking questions or doubting anything about the narrative. That most definitely is NOT the scientific method.
Plus if you spend much time reading scientists in the field at places like:
You start to see through the veil. If it was something that concerned you BEFORE they started calling it "Climate Change" as is my case then you kept up with the "Science" quite heavily for years.
I am very anti-pollution. I have always been against pollution.
CO2 is NOT pollution. We could actually use more of it. Carbon Monoxide, Clourflourocarbons and things of that nature are pollution.
Methane can be pollution but can also be recaptured and turned to good ends.
CO2 on the otherhand if we succeed in making tech to sequester and pull more CO2 out of the air then you will indeed see manmade climate change and the planet will get far more brown.
Plants need the CO2. Historically there have been much higher levels of CO2 and the plants thrived and we also had the most life on the planet that we have measured... not to mention the largest ever seen on land.
More CO2 = greener planet, and plants is more oxygen. Atmospheric density increases. Higher oxygen plus denser atmosphere make for larger animals.
A sign that it is all B.S. is the early proposed solutions. Carbon Taxing. That allows the worst offenders to continue while further punishing the poor and majority of the population.
Paris Climate Accords... ALWAYS leave out the worst offending nations. We've actually improved in the U.S.
I don't act on fear and emotion. I try to think, reason, and also think long term if possible and not just short term.
All the windmills all over the place. Disaster. Ecologically as well.
Climate Change is a political power play narrative and as with many/most these days it is based upon FEAR and getting people to hand over power to the elite because the elite promise to save them from this thing they are telling everyone to fear.
Meanwhile according to Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" which started this current fear porn we should have seen massive ocean level rises by 2016.
We did not. In fact he, Obama, and many others have been buying large ocean front properties.
Let's say the climate did change enough for the sea levels to rise.
So what?
We adapt. It has happened numerous times while man has been on the planet.
We actually are coming out of an ice age.
If you want to tackle plastics, sulfur dioxide, fossil fuel emissions, water pollution, etc.
I have long been supportive of such things as long as the people trying to fix it are looking for actual solutions and not just grabbing power and making people afraid.
I recycle. I've recycled long periods of my life when it is an option.
I also happen to be a dual Physics and Music major (they go together well if you know your history). It is what I chose because my university didn't yet have Computer Science when I attended.
I've always been into science, reason, philosophy, etc.
I've also been anti-peer pressure most of my life. I am a bit of rebel and sometimes did things just because everyone else was doing something else.
That has gifted me with kind of a mental immune system when people are trying to manipulate me.
When younger it is "popular" people, jocks, etc. mocking you because you are different. By the time I was a senior in high school none of them did. Before that it happened a lot.
I've been written up in a paper as being Satanic though I am nothing of the sort and no one ever interviewed me. Early in my life. (High School era)
I've been a victim of #metoo before it was a thing because I was with someone when he opened a wrong door and I kind of stood out. I was shocked and a virgin at the time. Yet, I was memorable so I got charged and told I couldn't go places on campus for years because the guy I was replacing was giving me a tour and opened the wrong door. He apologized. We left. That wasn't enough.
All female dorm that had the computer graveyard in the basement. That should give you context. She had a towel wrapped around her so we didn't see anything and her door was right next to the exit. He was busy talking to me and giving me a tour and opened the wrong door.
I was distinct on campus so she remembered me. He was graduating so nothing happened to him. I was essentially taking over the computer/network repair duties on campus. He was showing me that graveyard. After the situation I could only go there if I was escorted.
Does it matter to what we are talking about? Not really. Yet it may give you context to some of what shapes my thinking.
I don't like peer pressure.
I see the climate change, vaccine, #metoo, and many other narratives as actually large scale peer pressure and fear campaigns with government endorsement.
Aren't you applying peer pressure with your meme? Who is your meme about? All leftists? A particular leftist? Who is "they" that don't understand the difference between weather and climate change?
I don't like peer pressure either. I don't love when politicians, the media, social media platforms intentionally generalize whole groups of people in order to divide and conquer. I don't personally know anyone who truly thinks any fire, tornado, snow and shootings are legitimately the responsibility of climate change. Obviously I'm sure I'm probably reading your meme wrong, but at first glance it seems like you're calling everyone on the left stupid?
I think I'm gonna have to agree with @aussieninja here, @dwinblood, for perhaps the first and perhaps the last time in my life.
At this point in human history, I think @dwinblood and I are just about in the same boat. I'm seeing "modern leftism" as a serious blight, and so I'm not here to say that @dwinblood is necessarily wrong about the facts themselves.
But I think that increased factionalism is part of the issue that modern society is having. I think altruism without function is as bad as the naming of enemies based on a singular grouping.
I really have to admit that normally, I do tend to agree and enjoy @dwinblood's writing, but I fear that logic and truth are not present at the moment. Facts and emotions are present, but logic and truth, by necessity, supersede those things, and that is what bothers me.
I too, have this gift: "That has gifted me with kind of a mental immune system when people are trying to manipulate me." -Dwinblood
And I know you are not trying to manipulate, as some sort of wickedly devised social control strategy, but that is what this post is doing. Your honest thoughts are at least honest, but I think that they could be improved and crafted to be more benevolent.
Benevolence is not altruism. There are scales of love, and I think it starts at the weakest, most pathetic point: Pity. That extends to being merely nice. Then towards kindness. Then to altruism. And then to benevolence. These are stages of complexity. Benevolence is the step before universal love, but universal love is in the realm of gods.
(For the record, I also believe that there are functional stages of hatred, and how to use negative emotions for the betterment of life, and also, to the detriment of it.)
For us mortals with our limited perspectives, we must understand that benevolence is the mindset of a parent: We must appreciate, we must understand, we must care, and sometimes, we must discipline.
And thus I do not encourage you to turn a blind eye towards the world, factions in the world, and in particular, leftists, who I believe are indeed in the grips of what I think is a very harmful political and social mindset.
I just think you could be more benevolent and detailed, regarding what you think NPCism is and how to counter it.
Oh and for the record. I am anti-Altruism in the socialist sense.
I am selfish. I am not greedy. I am however selfish. I will protect my own family, my own property, my friends, etc. before I go out of my way to protect someone else.
If those things are protected and I am in a position to help someone voluntarily I often choose to do so.
I do not believe in compassion by proxy. I don't think giving other people money to solve problems is compassionate. It is more virtue signalling.
I only think you can be compassionate if you take the action yourself.
That is me.
If I want to help people I will do so.
I will not throw money into the ether and hope some bureaucratic entity will spend it wisely and actually help people. From my research they tend to make things worse.
If we just did it ourselves we'd ACTUALLY be compassionate and we'd likely get a lot more done.
I'm the opposite honestly. I have no problem throwing money at experts like dentists, accountants, mechanics, arborists, etc to help me solve problems. I know it's impossible to know everything so I'm happy to depend on the wealth of knowledge others have spent their lives acquiring to help me solve problems. Obviously I put a lot of effort into finding a good expert, I have some horror stories like everyone else.
I'd do the same for people who would clean up a river or create a wetlands. I don't have expertise in that area so it makes sense to contribute to those with the knowledge and tools to be successful. Obviously I've donated manpower when that's what's needed, but I'm aware that I can't be everywhere and I only have so much time/effort to donate.
You're not concerned about the state of the environment being left to future generations?
Sure. Yet the climate change narrative being pushed is total bullshit. They also seem to have forgotten what "Weather" is. They also blame things that have nothing to do with climate upon climate change. It is just more Fear nonsense.
Nothing scientific about it at all. That should be obvious when you can be banned, silenced, and fired for asking questions or doubting anything about the narrative. That most definitely is NOT the scientific method.
Plus if you spend much time reading scientists in the field at places like:
https://www.climatedepot.com/
and
https://wattsupwiththat.com/
You start to see through the veil. If it was something that concerned you BEFORE they started calling it "Climate Change" as is my case then you kept up with the "Science" quite heavily for years.
I am very anti-pollution. I have always been against pollution.
CO2 is NOT pollution. We could actually use more of it. Carbon Monoxide, Clourflourocarbons and things of that nature are pollution.
Methane can be pollution but can also be recaptured and turned to good ends.
CO2 on the otherhand if we succeed in making tech to sequester and pull more CO2 out of the air then you will indeed see manmade climate change and the planet will get far more brown.
Plants need the CO2. Historically there have been much higher levels of CO2 and the plants thrived and we also had the most life on the planet that we have measured... not to mention the largest ever seen on land.
More CO2 = greener planet, and plants is more oxygen. Atmospheric density increases. Higher oxygen plus denser atmosphere make for larger animals.
A sign that it is all B.S. is the early proposed solutions. Carbon Taxing. That allows the worst offenders to continue while further punishing the poor and majority of the population.
Paris Climate Accords... ALWAYS leave out the worst offending nations. We've actually improved in the U.S.
I don't act on fear and emotion. I try to think, reason, and also think long term if possible and not just short term.
All the windmills all over the place. Disaster. Ecologically as well.
Climate Change is a political power play narrative and as with many/most these days it is based upon FEAR and getting people to hand over power to the elite because the elite promise to save them from this thing they are telling everyone to fear.
Meanwhile according to Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" which started this current fear porn we should have seen massive ocean level rises by 2016.
We did not. In fact he, Obama, and many others have been buying large ocean front properties.
Let's say the climate did change enough for the sea levels to rise.
So what?
We adapt. It has happened numerous times while man has been on the planet.
We actually are coming out of an ice age.
If you want to tackle plastics, sulfur dioxide, fossil fuel emissions, water pollution, etc.
I have long been supportive of such things as long as the people trying to fix it are looking for actual solutions and not just grabbing power and making people afraid.
I recycle. I've recycled long periods of my life when it is an option.
I also happen to be a dual Physics and Music major (they go together well if you know your history). It is what I chose because my university didn't yet have Computer Science when I attended.
I've always been into science, reason, philosophy, etc.
I've also been anti-peer pressure most of my life. I am a bit of rebel and sometimes did things just because everyone else was doing something else.
That has gifted me with kind of a mental immune system when people are trying to manipulate me.
When younger it is "popular" people, jocks, etc. mocking you because you are different. By the time I was a senior in high school none of them did. Before that it happened a lot.
I've been written up in a paper as being Satanic though I am nothing of the sort and no one ever interviewed me. Early in my life. (High School era)
I've been a victim of #metoo before it was a thing because I was with someone when he opened a wrong door and I kind of stood out. I was shocked and a virgin at the time. Yet, I was memorable so I got charged and told I couldn't go places on campus for years because the guy I was replacing was giving me a tour and opened the wrong door. He apologized. We left. That wasn't enough.
All female dorm that had the computer graveyard in the basement. That should give you context. She had a towel wrapped around her so we didn't see anything and her door was right next to the exit. He was busy talking to me and giving me a tour and opened the wrong door.
I was distinct on campus so she remembered me. He was graduating so nothing happened to him. I was essentially taking over the computer/network repair duties on campus. He was showing me that graveyard. After the situation I could only go there if I was escorted.
Does it matter to what we are talking about? Not really. Yet it may give you context to some of what shapes my thinking.
I don't like peer pressure.
I see the climate change, vaccine, #metoo, and many other narratives as actually large scale peer pressure and fear campaigns with government endorsement.
Aren't you applying peer pressure with your meme? Who is your meme about? All leftists? A particular leftist? Who is "they" that don't understand the difference between weather and climate change?
I don't like peer pressure either. I don't love when politicians, the media, social media platforms intentionally generalize whole groups of people in order to divide and conquer. I don't personally know anyone who truly thinks any fire, tornado, snow and shootings are legitimately the responsibility of climate change. Obviously I'm sure I'm probably reading your meme wrong, but at first glance it seems like you're calling everyone on the left stupid?
I think I'm gonna have to agree with @aussieninja here, @dwinblood, for perhaps the first and perhaps the last time in my life.
At this point in human history, I think @dwinblood and I are just about in the same boat. I'm seeing "modern leftism" as a serious blight, and so I'm not here to say that @dwinblood is necessarily wrong about the facts themselves.
But I think that increased factionalism is part of the issue that modern society is having. I think altruism without function is as bad as the naming of enemies based on a singular grouping.
I really have to admit that normally, I do tend to agree and enjoy @dwinblood's writing, but I fear that logic and truth are not present at the moment. Facts and emotions are present, but logic and truth, by necessity, supersede those things, and that is what bothers me.
I too, have this gift: "That has gifted me with kind of a mental immune system when people are trying to manipulate me." -Dwinblood
And I know you are not trying to manipulate, as some sort of wickedly devised social control strategy, but that is what this post is doing. Your honest thoughts are at least honest, but I think that they could be improved and crafted to be more benevolent.
Benevolence is not altruism. There are scales of love, and I think it starts at the weakest, most pathetic point: Pity. That extends to being merely nice. Then towards kindness. Then to altruism. And then to benevolence. These are stages of complexity. Benevolence is the step before universal love, but universal love is in the realm of gods.
(For the record, I also believe that there are functional stages of hatred, and how to use negative emotions for the betterment of life, and also, to the detriment of it.)
For us mortals with our limited perspectives, we must understand that benevolence is the mindset of a parent: We must appreciate, we must understand, we must care, and sometimes, we must discipline.
And thus I do not encourage you to turn a blind eye towards the world, factions in the world, and in particular, leftists, who I believe are indeed in the grips of what I think is a very harmful political and social mindset.
I just think you could be more benevolent and detailed, regarding what you think NPCism is and how to counter it.
Just for the humor in it (it is amusing to me):
New Fossil Fuel Fan: Obama Orders 2,500-Gallon Propane Storage For Vacation Home
Oh and for the record. I am anti-Altruism in the socialist sense.
I am selfish. I am not greedy. I am however selfish. I will protect my own family, my own property, my friends, etc. before I go out of my way to protect someone else.
If those things are protected and I am in a position to help someone voluntarily I often choose to do so.
I do not believe in compassion by proxy. I don't think giving other people money to solve problems is compassionate. It is more virtue signalling.
I only think you can be compassionate if you take the action yourself.
That is me.
If I want to help people I will do so.
I will not throw money into the ether and hope some bureaucratic entity will spend it wisely and actually help people. From my research they tend to make things worse.
If we just did it ourselves we'd ACTUALLY be compassionate and we'd likely get a lot more done.
I'm the opposite honestly. I have no problem throwing money at experts like dentists, accountants, mechanics, arborists, etc to help me solve problems. I know it's impossible to know everything so I'm happy to depend on the wealth of knowledge others have spent their lives acquiring to help me solve problems. Obviously I put a lot of effort into finding a good expert, I have some horror stories like everyone else.
I'd do the same for people who would clean up a river or create a wetlands. I don't have expertise in that area so it makes sense to contribute to those with the knowledge and tools to be successful. Obviously I've donated manpower when that's what's needed, but I'm aware that I can't be everywhere and I only have so much time/effort to donate.