Well, yeah.
Cooling?
That too. Change.
Man-made causes?
Definitely.
Atmospheric carbon?
Yeah, but not all by itself.
Sequestering?
What on earth do they think they are into, here? We need that carbon, we just don't need to be spewing it into the air in that form, at the rate we are now.
Every argument becomes a reason to assert somebody's right to tell everyone else what to do.
Lose the debate over who gets to tell whom what to do. It's just another proxy for war, and, like all proxies for war, gets bloody if we can't leave it alone.
Pollution? Are we polluting the environment?
Most definitely. Now we're getting closer to the problems. But it's not just the physical environment.
We have to quit polluting.
What are we doing that pollutes?
Finally, we're getting to the real questions, the real problems.
- Too much driving places we don't need to drive in cars that use too much energy of one form or another.
- Too much shipping things places they don't need to go and then shipping them other places they don't need to go until we just end up shipping them to the landfills.
- Too much pushing information around on the 'net that doesn't need to be pushed around, especially pictures and promises of pictures of naked people, promises of easy money, promises of miracle cures, and other fraud.
- Too much manufacturing things that don't need to be manufactured.
- Too much fighting each other about what the other guy should be doing.
- Too much fighting each other, not just with weapons of blades and explosives, but with money, products, presentations, advertising, words, regulations, laws, intellectual property, ...
- Too much meaningless competition.
- Too much trying to control the other guy.
- Too much.
We have to learn how to help each other make a living without polluting.
How do we do that? More rules?
Since when does making more rules help anybody do anything?
More machines?
Actually, more machines, if we weren't so busy controlling what the other guy is doing with them, could help.
What are the underlying causes of the doing too much? Why, for example, does Intel waste so much of our global semiconductor resources manufacturing CPUs, memory devices, etc., for more energy inefficient devices that people really don't want?
What did I just say?
What do you see when you go to the electronics store to look at consumer information/computing devices?
More MSWindows/Intel devices. Intel and Microsoft are really pushing hard to keep their effective near-monopoly that allows them to control the market so they can claim (among other things) that they are too big to brought to account for their illegal and immoral activities -- too big to be shut down. (We've heard that before, too.)
What do people really want?
iOS devices that use mostly non-Intel parts and non-Microsoft software.
If not that, Android devices that, again, run perfectly fine without either Intel or Microsoft.
After that? MacOS devices that, if it were not for a "switch" that Apple pulled to get Intel out of their hair about ten years ago, never needed anything Intel at all.
And after that? Open software devices that are perfectly fine for most people's workstation needs, that, again, unless you invoke constrained and fraudulent Intellectual Property arguments, are completely independent of Intel and Microsoft technology.
No, Intel CPUs are not and have never been faster than the PowerPC devices that IBM and Motorola offered to allow pretty much anyone to make. Nor will they ever be more efficient than the ARM devices that pretty much anyone can make now.
That switch that Apple pulled wasn't about speed or efficiency at all. It was about fraudulent intellectual property claims that Intel was, and still is using to keep other companies from making competing products.
And now it is about the NSA insisting that all information/computing devices have to have backdoors so they can eavesdrop on your and my conversations, so that they can send the black ops guys around to tell you and me we are doing something they don't want us to do. So we have to be given a reason to dump our perfectly good information/computing device (smartphones included) and buy something that has been manufactured in the last few years by Intel or someone licensed to use the Intel backdoors.
Who is that "they" that doesn't want you to do something that really isn't anyone's business but your own and your neighbor's and God's?
"They" are the invisible competition, the invisible bad guys, the demons in the rich guys minds, the excuse for the people with all the money to keep having to work overtime making other people work overtime to produce product that nobody needs or really wants so that "they" can win the race that nobody needs to be running.
Boston was fun to listen to when I was younger. Not so much now, but
I understand about indecision,(And "they" want to give us "their" piece of their mind.)
I don't care if I get [left] behind,
People living in competition,
All I want is to have my peace of mind.
Look in the mirror. Why are you running so hard to go places you don't need to go?
You could at least be running just for exercise, instead ...
... if you can't figure out a good reason to go to places real people actually need you to go at a pace that doesn't wear you and everybody else out.
You and I and the people near us deciding to slow down a little would do a whole lot to reduce the excessive use of energy in our local environment.
And if that started happening all over the world, we could have a little more time and energy for getting food and clothes and other necessities to people who need them, so that they quit feeling like they have to bring the wars to our doorsteps to get the necessities we have too much of and they have too little of.
We'd have a little more time and energy for doing things that really mean something.
And we could make friends in the process, and that would help us start solving some of the other social problems that people say we need to solve.
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