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Originally Posted by YeOldeCurmudgeon
I think this topic is very important and should not be categorized as political. The problem is that there are those who have made it political. It affects us all, as we can see with the latest hurricane, which caused so much damage and flooding because according to the experts contained more water and flooding effects because of global warming.
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Whether there is climate change or not is not a discussion that would be fruitful as some will quote "experts" who believe in climate change and others will quote other "experts" who don't believe climate change is manmade to the point of such urgent concern. Whether climate change is something that requiers immediate concern or not is best left to the experts to deal with. The United Nations can't get the world on board with it. So for the sake of argument, let's just say Climate Change is real and needs to be addressed. The real issue that needs to be addressed is how to mitigate the perceved change. Energy is what propells the world and we need energy now while future energy needs are well thought out, studied, and planned for including clean methods to extract the required earth elements to produce energy products. In today's world, a country needs to be energy independant because we simply can't depend on unreliable political ambitions of other countries.