I have a great idea !!!! Let's hype the people to agree to a global "carbon tax" and promise them that we can change the weather !!! We will make a large fortune. If it was presented this way, well.., I believe most people would see right through this.
Whether the earth is warming, polluting, or whatever- does anyone truly believe that mere humans can reverse the powerful forces of nature ??
If there is a problem, the root cause would lie in the fact that the planet IS being abused by money grubbing organizations that have no respect for you or I, and no respect for Mother Earth.
Meanwhile, money grubbers are devastating the planet's self cleansing systems, such as the Brazilian rain forest.
It is fact that we do not need to use a drop of oil or a lump of coal for our energy needs. But oil and coal are cheap. Solar, wind, hydro, tidal, nuclear and geothermal are abundant and could be even cheaper. But the big oil companies, auto industry, countries, and others who are in the oil industry make it un-economical, highly regulated to pursue 'alternative energy'
The solution to whatever problem exists (or doesn't) is to take the money out of the process and let loose human ingenuity.
I wholeheartedly agree that pollution and deforestation can be huge problems, although wealth has helped us alleviate much of them. In fact, thanks to the CO2 increase the planet is greener than it was when we first launched observation satellites in 1979.
However, fossil fuels are cheap because they are still abundant AND easy to use. Hydro can be cheap and relatively "clean", but there are only so many rivers to be harvested. Nuclear is also "clean", but as the industry stands right now (uranium), the problem of waste is still highly problemati.
As for wind and solar, they are completely unreliable because 1) they don't give energy 24/7, 2) they ALWAYS need a backup, usually fossil-fueled, 3) their existence is ONLY due to government subsidies (they receive 1200x the funds per MW than fossil fuels) and 4) their construction itself is highly polluting. And don't get me started on its avian genocide...
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