mrplunkey
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Risks to the Planet in Descending Order:
1) Nuclear proliferation leading to the widespread use of dirty bombs or even conventional weapons
- We're talking 1,000-year nuclear winters and an atmosphere flooded with radioactive isotopes with 100,000 year+ half-lives
- So what are we doing? We're playing nice with Iran and North Korea while they quietly develop that technology
2) Some sort of natural geological event (i.e. a world-reshaping volcano)
- It's driven mass extinctions several times in our history
- So what are we doing? How much money are we spending on remediation around an event like that, versus this silly global warming (ummm... I mean "climate change") junk?
3) Some sort of extra-terrestrial event (asteroid, star exploding, etc. etc.)
- It's driven mass extinctions several times in our history
- So what are we doing? We still can't even detect large asteroids until they're right-up on us. Great plan -- notify the public 60 seconds before impact
But since "climate change" is all about wealth redistribution and not about fixing problems, we'll ignore the real risks and pretend that we can prevent 5+ billion people from entering the modern world of automobiles and electrical appliances. Yeah, that Prius is going to do wonders against a couple of billion Chinese people finally being able to afford cars.
1) Nuclear proliferation leading to the widespread use of dirty bombs or even conventional weapons
- We're talking 1,000-year nuclear winters and an atmosphere flooded with radioactive isotopes with 100,000 year+ half-lives
- So what are we doing? We're playing nice with Iran and North Korea while they quietly develop that technology
2) Some sort of natural geological event (i.e. a world-reshaping volcano)
- It's driven mass extinctions several times in our history
- So what are we doing? How much money are we spending on remediation around an event like that, versus this silly global warming (ummm... I mean "climate change") junk?
3) Some sort of extra-terrestrial event (asteroid, star exploding, etc. etc.)
- It's driven mass extinctions several times in our history
- So what are we doing? We still can't even detect large asteroids until they're right-up on us. Great plan -- notify the public 60 seconds before impact
But since "climate change" is all about wealth redistribution and not about fixing problems, we'll ignore the real risks and pretend that we can prevent 5+ billion people from entering the modern world of automobiles and electrical appliances. Yeah, that Prius is going to do wonders against a couple of billion Chinese people finally being able to afford cars.