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    Default AGW isn't the culprit

    Here is the starting point:

    Why the “Anthropocene” Is Not “Climate Change” and Why It Matters


    “Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by “environmental problems.” Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that human pressures became so profound around the middle of the 20th century that we blew a planetary gasket. Hello, new Earth System. Hello, Anthropocene.
    The phrase “Earth System” refers to the entirety of our planet’s interacting physical, chemical, biological, and human processes. Enabled by new data-collecting technologies like satellites and ever more powerful computer modeling, Earth System science reframes how we understand our planet. Climate is just one element of this system; if we focus on that alone, we will misunderstand the complexity of the danger. The term “environment” helps us understand ourselves as part of ecosystems, but fails to capture the newness of our current situation. We have always lived in the environment; only very recently, just as Asia began its skyrocketing development, did we begin living in the altered Earth System of the Anthropocene.
    The Anthropocene Requires a New Way of Thinking
    The Anthropocene is a multidimensional challenge. Our future is more unpredictable than ever, with new phenomena like Category 5 megastorms, rapid species extinction, and the loss of polar ice. This change is irreversible. NASA says that levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) are higher than they have been at any time in the past 400,000 years—well before our species evolved—causing the atmosphere to warm.
    The climate has certainly changed, but so too have other aspects of the planetary system. Take the lithosphere: 193,000 human-made “inorganic crystalline compounds,” or what you and I might call “rocks,” now vastly outnumber Earth’s ~5000 natural minerals, while 8.3 billion tons of plastics coat the land, water, and our internal organs. Due to modern agribusiness techniques, so much topsoil is washing away that England has only about 60 more harvests left. (Source: https://www.asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/...limate-change/ )

    What does this mean? It means what I have been saying ever since I have been a member here: Democrats are shit for brains thinking that lowering CO2 and having electric vehicles and such will save species, humanity, etc when their entire platform is about MORE MORE MORE. More roads; more consumption; more destruction of the planet.

    System-wide Sustainable living is the only path forward that makes sense. That would reduce carbon but it would more fundamentally address the loss of clean air, clean water, wildlife and its habitat. As imperfect as the Green Party platform is in this regard, it is a hell of a lot better than the DNC's. The GOP at least used to understand this when they were conservationists. It sure would be nice if they would get off their end of the political spite wagon and find their way back to it, but hey, sleeping in a Buebird in the Walmart parking lot is probably the same for the kids as sleeping in a tent in actual woods, swimming in unchlorinated lakes, pissing on the campfire and shit.

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    Guess nobody wants to have a serious discussion.

    Oh well. Shouldn't be surprised.

    Yo momma is so dumb, she saw orange is the new black and voted for Donald Trump.

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