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I think its important to undrstand that we are the resources. Oil was useless before we found ways to get it up from the underground and refine it to energy and
by ThomPete 7y ago
I think its important to undrstand that we are the resources. Oil was useless before we found ways to get it up from the underground and refine it to energy and the thousands of products we use in modern society, coal was useless before we found ways to turn it into energy, concrete etc, uranium was useless before we found ways to use it, stainless steel and i could go on.
- shakna 7y agoI think the answer to "What is Earth's most valuable resource?" is frequently answered with "the people". By common folk, dictators, and ordinary politicians. I'd put that into the common knowledge pile.
- ThomPete 7y agoNot in the climate debate. In that humans are seen as the problem, a cancer if you like, that destroys nature.
- shakna 7y agoThey are also seen as the solution in the climate debate. That the tools and technologies that can be deployed by the ingenuity of humanity can change the landscape to suit us. It's a problem both caused by and solved by humanity. Which is why focusing on this part of the topic is largely irrelevant to the debate.
- ThomPete 7y agoMostly by those who are called climate skeptics, the GTs of the world, the Erlichs consider humans the problem and want us to live a very different way or for there to be less of us. You claimed it was common knowledge, its not.