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Originally Posted by Gpsma
Cant deal with global warming….im still working on the new ice age i was told about in the 1970s….also the acid rain from the 1980s..amd the ozone layer depletion from the 1990s.
Please hold up all the sky is falling stuff until i deal with all these othere disasters
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OK, I would humbly suggest that people look at a graph of world population (hint- it starts rising sharply after about 1950). (Then even sharper in the last 10 years). Next, compare that graph to one of the CO2 increases in both the upper atmosphere and in the world's oceans.
........Here is MY logic........The LARGER population means more demand for food and wood - so forests get cut down for lumber and also to plant crops ------like the obvious destruction of the Amazon rainforest. When the forests of the WORLD are decimated (by population growth) then the CO2 produced by gasoline engines in cars, trucks, and golf cars can NOT be absorbed by the earth's plants. So, it ends up in the upper atmosphere where it reflects HEAT. Heat around the planet does things like break records for the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf surrounding Florida. That gave us Hurricane Irma which was one of the worst to ever hit the US. EXCESS CO2 also ends up in the oceans where it is KILLING coral reefs.
.......In the US only 8 % of new cars purchased are Electric. EVs use fewer PARTS than comparable IC engines so they have the potential to cost less AND fewer workers would be needed on the Big 3's assembly lines. This may explain the reluctance of the Big 3 to move RAPIDLY toward EVs. Europe produces more new EVs than the US. So, the US is likely to EVENTUALLY catch up. The UAW strike must be partly driven by the likelihood of fewer workers needed in the future.