David Bailey
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There always has been - the trick is to claim it is all about global warming. I mean the story I read about the fires in California, is that the fires are raging now because the brushwood (dead trees and branches) isn't being cleared. This makes these fires far more likely to happen.Global warming/global cooling.. all these projections, and humans are still unable to predict next weeks weather with more than 50% accuracy.
There is already environmental damage. People can die from excess heat or extreme cold (altho it easier to warm up a body than cool it down)
Something similar happened here. People stopped clearing out the drains and other water courses, so when it rains, we get flooding, which is blamed on CC!
Arguing about what will most likely kill us is both denial and alarmist. Let's hope one of us is wrong.
From my perspective, the best things to do for the environment are the obvious things:
We should try to persuade people in some way or other to reduce the population increase.
We don't want plastic in the oceans, so we should reduce its use if possible, but also burn waste plastic for energy because mixed, used plastic is practically useless.
We should definitely and completely stop the destruction of the rain forests.
We should try to reduce food waste as far as possible.
I am sure you can think of lots more ideas, and none of them rely on speculative science to justify them.
Those things are expensive, and we are only paying lip-service to them if we go on with the ludicrously expansive decarbonising policy.
One plausible reason why politicians like CAGW, is that it requires lots of new taxes, lots of lucrative contracts with firms that will actually set up the necessary infrastructure, and if it doesn't work well, they can just say they are doing their best to escape big, bad coal/oil/gas!
David