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Originally Posted by Cyndalie
I really like that site, I read it at lunch all the time, it's one of my favorite blogs.
People often confuse global warming with pollution. Whether global warming or climate change is caused by an increase of CO2 into the atmosphere is the debate. Pollution and the other shit just funkifies the planet. I think Global Warming is a modern myth, that climate change is cyclical for the planet. Being aware of our impact on the environment is necessary, perserve and protect...but not everything about this latest version of the 'green movement' is all good and well intended.
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There is a large part of the global warming/climate change crowd that has become ignorant and dogmatic - it's like a religion now. This change happened slowly as large corporations began using "green" marketing, and thus recruited the brainless masses to be "eco-warriors" - indoctornated them with partial truths, flat-out misinformation and propoganda - to save the world through consumption. Save the environment by buying cars and spending more money on environmentally friendly consumer goods. Does anyone else remember the 1980s? Right around 1985 - 1989 to be exact. The environment was really popular back then, our big problems were CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons - bad for the ozone layer.. omgrotflbbq!!!!!1111 there's a hole in teh ozones!!), acid raid (caused by particulate pollution from cars and industry) and rainforest deforestation. There was a big marketing push back then too, Greenpeace had great recruitment back then, "CFC free" aerosols, the WWF, buy an acre of rainforest.. we did school projects on it, etc, etc.. good times.
Anyway, there is no longer intelligent debate, there is just tribalism - you are either a devoted follower if or a heretic. If you dare question global warming or the motivations of its most ardent supporters, you are cast as "having your head in the sand" or "ignoring the problem". The irony and hypocrisy is so thick it's barely tolerable. In 5 years we'll be too busy dealing with some other problem, the "green" marketing will have lost its ability to produce "green", the housing market will be recovered... it'll be 1995 again and no one will give two shits about global warming, the environment, etc..