Ok ok ,,, I watched the educational vid from George Carlin . Very thruthful and to the point . So I am wrong on a bunch of stuff . I am man enough to admit it . But it still gives humans no right to polute the way we do . It gives humans no right to add shit all over the place . What's wrong with wanting clean air . What's wrong with walking in the woods that have not been deforested . What's wrong with wanting to see a whale . What's wrong with wanting to drink water out of my tap and not a plastic bottle . Yes I am wrong on saying the world is toast . Humans are and will be toast but while I am here and my children grow up I'd like to look out the window and say ahh ,,, look at that . Clean air today so I won't need my inhaler .
I feel you bro! I want the same things. But I need for these things to be done for the right reasons. Many people just feel that as long as something is done, the motivations dont count, but they really kinda do for me. My neighbor bought a Prius. But she did it because it fits in her single car garage, gets better gas mileage than her minivan did, and she liked the color. But I have a client who has the exact same Prius, but he bought it because he thinks he is "saving the planet". He is a vegan, consumes a lot of soy products and believes very strongly in global warming. But guess what? His office has 12 printers (one for each employee), each using a large print cartridge. that fancy hepa filtering system he had installed sucks up more energy than an air conditioner, and his wife drives a gas guzzling Cadillac Escalade. Clean up the air and technology, but not because of manmade global warming. It just does not exist.
And you are right . We have the technology to clean stuff up but it is not applied as too many people are getting filthy rich off of our need for stuff and more stuff . Hey . I'm guilty of polluting the air with my 2 stroke motorcycle which I ride rarely but still enjoy the small time I ride it .
Enjoy your ride! You aren't polluting MY air. You should not be worrying about your bike. At the same moment you are riding your bike with the wind at your face and that sound of the engine is in your ears, some cattle farmer in India is watching over a herd which is throwing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in a day than you are doing in a year. And you cant do anything about it. Too many people spend time worrying about so many things.
Do I believe in global warning ? If you add pollution and not climate change to the equation. Then I am onboard .
Thanks for all the input guys . Enjoying the banter tremendously .
I agree with you on the pollution aspect, but it is more on the level of the way I feel when people do not keep a clean home or when I go into a public restroom in a restaurant and find it cruddy and unkempt. It has nothing to do with some global effort to "save the planet". Clean it up because it is nicer that way.
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