I don't understand "global warming"/"climate change"

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Nope. The entire world needs energy.
And food. And water. And safety.

I don't really understand all the big science behind it all either, but honestly, I don't feel like I need to. I get the general idea, and that's enough for me when it comes to understanding it. As for doing something about it, I'm just one person without any real chances of doing something big, so I'll just do the little things I can, like taking care of recycling what I can, lessening the amount of meat I eat (might consider giving up red meat at some point), making sure my own trash doesn't end up in nature (and occasionally cleaning up someone else's), taking care of the plants at my parents' farm when I'm there with what little skill I have on the matter etc. And that's about it. Little things that don't mean anything in the big picture, but if everyone takes care of little things like that, it'll start to mean something.

What I hate about climate change -talk are the activists who demand unreasonable sacrifices from regular folk... usually, around here these people are city people who don't really have much experience living outside of the cities and so don't understand that in the countryside it's just not realistic to "live green" the way they do. There is no public transportation in most places and in many of those that do it's poor, so people need cars of their own just for their basic needs, like getting to work and getting groceries.

Honestly, in December I talked with this guy who kept saying that we don't need to produce our own food here in Finland where we need lots of electricity for it 'cause we can buy it from elsewhere. I asked him what about emergencies where all countries watch their own backs first (and the backs of those who they can benefit the most after that), but he said such emergency is very unlikely in today's world.

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At the moment, I regret not answering with "Have you ever heard of Putin?"

But then again, I would've probably been accused of some type of discrimination at the time if I did, so guess it's good that I didn't.

This sums up nicely as the counter argument for "the climate has always been changing; change is natural!"

I am a wind baron. My job is to get wind out of the sky. I am a respected Danish wind baron, I have drilled multiple wind wells in the wind field. There is more wind than oil, and it is cheaper too.

Can I be a nuclear countess?
At least my MS in Physics would be of some use

I'd rather get oil from you than that war-mongering psychopath.

Agreed.

The global economy trades with a lot of countries run by psychopaths.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswith ... f8c4bd32b1

Hoo doesn't know this?
Gawd, I hate big business.

And for that matter a lot of big business is run by sociopaths

I believe you mean "psychopaths".
Sociopaths are made through psychological damage and tend not to perform well in the business world.
Psychopaths are born and tend to do very well in the cut-throat business environment.

Pepe, I am sorry to say that you are committing "political correctness"

The scientific term is "anti social personality disorder". There is no scientific distinction between "psychopaths" and "sociopaths". They are different words for the same thing. Many psychopaths prefer "sociopath" because it is less likely to be confused with "psychotic". "Sociopath" also tends to be preferred by people who think ASPD is acquired rather than innate.

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-sup ... rder-aspd/
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/condit ... -disorder/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con ... c-20353928

Russia is different. Another reason you are told to hate Russia.
5:20 "Political pedophilia".
"The people who did this must go on trial."

Russia On Greta Thunberg

I think Pepe is referring to the old definitions which distinguished between the two based on nature/nurture. But yes, it makes more sense that sociopaths are psychopaths who'se genes have been activated by environmental factors (diathesis stress model). Two sides of the same coin.

Children, please.
I don't need to be taught how to suck eggs on this subject.
I knew about this stuff when some were still in the womb.



https://www.zmescience.com/science/diff ... sociopath/

This was simply the first find.
There are plenty more sources on the subject. <yawn>

I hope some of my Texas tea makes it to Australia