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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
OK, yes, good post. The 1st step in SOLVING a problem IS to identify clearly what that problem IS. I would like people to realize the PROBLEM happens each time the ignition KEY to a Infernal Combustion Engine is turned on. Or a gas lawn mower is STARTED. Now I know that people, especially older folks that are set in their ways, will NOT immediately trade their ICE engine vehicle (car, truck, or golf cart) on an E-VEHICLE.
I know that ! But I SIMPLY would like more people to realize that for people and animal species to continue to live on this planet Earth in a civilized and peaceful manner in the FUTURE - that today we must, (AT LEAST) recognize the correlation between fossil fuel vehicles and a deteriorating planet and SOME potentially really BAD outcomes for HUMANS !!!!!!
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You /cannot/ "solve" the "problem" of climate change by eliminating the use of fossil fuels. You just can't.
Fossil fuels are the #1 ingredient of most plastics on this planet. There are other plastics that don't use fossil fuels, but oil is the #1 source of most plastic. Your computer monitor, your keyboard, your cell phone case, the buttons on your shirt, the hard tips of your shoelaces, the lining of your running shoe soles, most likely your windowshade, your lanai windows and screens. Your plumbing pipes are likely PVC, which is made with natural gas and salt as the main ingredient. Natural gas is also a fossil fuel.
Using the assumption that climate change a) exists and b) is a problem, you have to accept that it cannot be solved. It will never revert back to the time before it was a problem. That just flat out won't ever happen, unless there's another ice age. So you need to stop trying to tackle the problem with the notion that it can be solved. It can't.
The ONLY thing we can do, as a species, about the assumed problem of climate change, is to reduce our contribution to it. Energy-efficient structures, ADDING alternative renewable fuels to our existing use of fossil fuels to reduce our 100% reliance on them, for example.
Reducing pollution, more eco-friendly use of our waterways - maybe get rid of speed boats entirely. Reducing sport-fishing and encouraging fishing for food instead. We have entire species of animals on the verge of extinction, and they are important parts of OUR food chain. Without them, WE suffer. So we need to do whatever we can, within our means, to prevent that extinction.
What am I doing to that end? My flower and herb beds use no pesticides or chemical fertilizers at all. They attract honeybees and other pollinators, which can thrive and not spread poison from my soil to their nests and hives. I don't kill bugs outside my house, only inside it. I try to walk or ride my bike to the postal station instead of driving. It's a tiny little nothingburger of something I can do to help. But if everyone on the planet added their own tiny little nothingburger, the problem might take a few hundred years longer to become a catastrophe.