Misslizard wrote:
eric76 wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
I believe the environment is facing serious threats from mankind but the first priority should be to save the environment from environmentalists.
Did you hear the one from Canada? They proposed a hydroplant to generate gigawatts of clean energy. The environmentalists should be thrilled, right? Nope. They blocked it on the basis that it would cause environmental damage to one valley. Didn't it ever occur to them that preventing global warming through the use of clean energy could save all the valleys in the world?
They prevented that valley from being flooded but in 100 years it will be destroyed due to global warming. Environmentalists do more harm to the environment than anyone else.
Preventing Global Warming won't save much of anything except maybe the beachfront houses of the very wealthy.
The Marshall Islanders aren't wealthy.We have a population of them here in Arkanasa.The first of the "climate refugees."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... .html?_r=0According to Wikipedia, the estimated population of the Marshall islands is 53,376 in 2016.
Does this mean that you would have us try to stop Global Warming at very great cost for the benefit of those 53,376 people? What about the millions of people who will die from starvation if we were able to reduce the average temperature by just 1 degree Fahrenheit?
Regarding sea level, sea level is always changing. At the end of the last glaciation and the beginning of the Holocene, sea levels were approxiamately 100 to 120 meters below their current height.
Even more, a few thousand years ago, sea level may have been between 3 and 8 feet higher than today. For example, there are places in England where ocean sediment dated back to 4,000 years ago has been found at a height of one meter above sea level.
Sea level is always changing. It is not possible for mankind to guarantee that low-lying areas will not be overtaken by sea level rise and it is folly to try to do so.
What about the Philippines? 200 million people. Another low lying archipelago. Is that enough people to make it worthwhile. They're not all rich bastards either. Most of them are very poor.
31 Dec 2016, 7:17 pm
