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I believe in cycles. Things get worse, things get better. You never hear about when things get better. For the last several years, people were saying that CA w
by docker_up 7y ago
I believe in cycles. Things get worse, things get better. You never hear about when things get better.
For the last several years, people were saying that CA was in drought and that this was the "new normal". I didn't believe it, and I was right. This year is particularly colder than last year, even though we had 2 extremely hot days. This is how weather works, it's always changing. I think the next few years will continue to be wet in CA and then we'll hit another cycle of droughts and back and forth. It's also safe to note that the drought we experienced wasn't worse than the 1930s due to weather, it was worse because more water was being consumed by humans, which is a different sort of environmental disaster.
I do believe that the Earth is getting hotter, but I also believe we will get cooler over the next several years. But no one will talk about that because it doesn't get clicks.
We need to plant new trees and we need to incentivize countries to not cut down their forests. Places like Indonesia and Brazil, etc, need to be incentivized to keep their forests instead of cutting it down for cash crops.
I think the bigger crisis is plastic, pollution and chemicals in our water. We need to stop creating so much plastic and make extremely draconian laws controlling this. We need to stamp down on pollution from factories. Companies that spill into our lakes and rivers and oceans need to be fined with extreme prejudice. If they go out of business I simply don't care, I would rather see them out of business than have our water and environment polluted.
- primroot 7y agoI think a new normal, in the sense of a new steady (less favorable) state of the climate, is not something that is being suggested by the science. Just to point out one relevant fact, consider that the current CO2 levels were present at least going as far back to Pliocene geological epoch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene_climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene_climate. I think it is reasonable to expect at least plenty of instability as the Earth gets closer to the temperature and sea level of that time.
- mariushn 7y ago"Companies" are run by people and they employ people. You don't care because you don't work there. When one has that job and doesn't know how to do anything else (no, they can't learn programming), "the company" must go on. Human nature.