On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 5:44 PM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> *>"Environmentalists" are not one united group of people.* *Environmentalists are united about one thing, they never saw a large scale power source that they didn't hate. The self righteous little brat and self-proclaimed environmentalist Greta Thunberg was arrested a few years ago in Sweden for blocking a street while she demonstrated against the building of a wind farm. A wind farm!* > >* "* > *but SCoPEx didn't rate a mention. So this most likely was a small > group opposing it, and nobody else knew about it."* *SCoPEx only planned to place 2 kilograms of ground up over the counter antacid tablets into the stratosphere but environmentalists moved heaven and earth to stop them from doing so because they were terrified it might show a way to stop global warming without introducing mass suffering. Apparently they believe the human race needs to suffer for their past sins. I find this attitude to be utterly contemptible! And the group opposing it was large enough to kill SCoPEx. The same thing could be said about the environmentalists who killed the Thirty Meter Telescope, although in that case I admit they had the help of native Hawaiian imbeciles who were worried that this magnificent device that would have taught us more about how the universe works might offend an invisible man who lived in the sky. And Aquaman also helped to destroy the telescope. * *> "The most compelling argument to opposing geoengineering is that it is a > distraction from the real task, which is to reduce CO2 emissions."* *The real task is not to reduce CO2 emissions, it's to stop global warming. And I must say, global warming is a problem but if I were to make a list of world problems global warming would not make the top five, I'm not sure it would even make the top ten. * > *> "Some people (I don't think anyone in this company would be that > stupid) seem to think it is OK to continue burning fossil fuels if the > effects can be mitagated by climate geoengineering, or carbon capture > sequestration."* *Oh I'm stupid enough to believe we should continue burning fossil fuels until a replacement can be proven to be able to produce an equal amount of energy at a price that makes economic sense. I say that because the alternative is the end of civilization and the death of billions. Like it or not the Earth is simply not capable of keeping 8 billion mammals as large as human beings alive, much less happy, without artificial fertilizers and pesticides, which require energy to make, and farm machinery and a way to transport food to where it is needed, which also requires energy.* *>"This is all entirely political, and as far as I'm concerned > total bullshit. We need all and every possible means to counteract > climate change."* *Yes and that includes geoengineering if a way that could be found to make it work, and the first step in finding out if something like that could work involves grinding up 2 kg of Tums antacid tablets. But environmentalists say that is too radical a step to take even though they also claim global warming is an existential danger to the human race. And that is why I say environmentalists are not serious people.* John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 2rs > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3Z96vAaayGReorz3vouszaB0VcDr2C1UYMaWrUCEhFxg%40mail.gmail.com.
