Driving a Nail into the Coffin of Human-caused Global Warming

I am hoping we will shift to a goal of trying to become adaptable, aka do not build your house below or right at sea level in the path of hurricanes. That would be a start. 🙂

I have not read the article at all because I don’t feel like reading right now, so no comments on the content either.

Just sharing the day to day reality in my tiny country on the European continent.

Being very happy the sun is finally shining for a couple of days, with the sun the trouble with Particulate Matter will appear too. Whole of Europe and especially the big cities and unfortunately also the whole region I live in is covered with the stuff for months and months. In summer when there is little to no wind we are not allowed to drive cars more than 60km/hour, to minimalize the pollution.
Along the roads there are signs everywhere saying SMOG 60.

In 80 big cities in Europe they have a green zone, which means you are not allowed to drive your car in the city between 6.30am and 6.30 pm, if you do, you have to pay for it. That way they try to reduce the pollution by cars.
Some cities like Athens you can drive depending on your drivers plate. Of course smart asses buy two cars with different numbers so they can drive cars on both days.

Just to say it are humans though who are driving those cars, using the factories for their supplies and goods…

And no matter breathing Particulate Matter is deadly, the smaller the particals the deadlier, the smallest ones come from cars. In Europe a part of the cars and especially all the trucks run on ‘diesel’, which are the worst pollutors and have the smallest particals.

Clean cars are some sollution and in summer I have a device in my house that captures the particals but like for my middle daughter being in hot weather and being physical outside, needing more oxygen, she has trouble to breath and the more ozon in the air the more difficult she can breath, with chestpain and nausea.
On bad (polluted) hot days it is better for her to stay inside the house and not be physical too much.

Also the development of lungs of children are effected by this sort of pollution, resulting in allergies and astma, there is a real explosion of children and young people having allergies, eczema and astma.

So I don’t need to look at China to know that we are in trouble, man made trouble.
Even in Western Europe where people are more aware, politicians are inventing all sort of rules and laws to stop the pollution, we can not close the borders above our heads, we can not stop the winds of blowing over the mountains and sees, that became painfully clear when in Chernobyl (USSR) the nuclear reactor exploded, driving the outfall over Europe where we were no longer allowed to eat our self grown vegetables from the garden.

Living more closely together in Europe I guess we are more painfully aware of the effects we have on each other and are more committed to work together to do something about it.

The more outer space countries seem to have the less they believe there is a man made problem.

My day to day simple live tells me that we either work together and change for the better or we stay selfish and narrow minded and create hell on earth for all of us.

>>>Every issue will have both sides and
>>>both will be ‘convincing’ but only one
>>>will be right in the end.

To those in the global warming debate:

Why is this the case?

The problem I see with both sides of the debate
is that each is thinking that the other side is wrong.

Has anyone ever considered that the planet is
warming due to a COMBINATION of natural effects
AND man-made effects? . . . that the Earth
IS warming naturally, but it is also being aggravated
by human negligence to the environment?

Why does it have to be either-or?

Anyone fixated on one narrow side has blinders up
in my opinion. OF COURSE, the sun is contributing.
OF COURSE, we as a people are contributing. What
else could it really be?

Then, regardless of what percent our contribution to
global warming is, we should take steps to minimize
our destructive impact on the environment . . . for
no other reason than it’s simply a good idea. THEN
having acted in good conscience, submit and surrender
ourselves to the Tao, and let whatever will be, be.

S

>>>What are peoples feelings about the emotions
>>>behind the concepts that humans are the main
>>>cause and the dominate push for this in the media?

Probably a latent frustration response to perceived apathy
that many believe the “sheep-minded” populace tends to have,
i.e. a reaction to irresponsible, wasteful, consumer-driven,
hedonistic living with no regard to the consequences of the
reckless actions taken. That is, an attempt by those
frustrated by such behavior to use shock and awe to try
to say “wake up” to those that perpetuate such behavior.
In essence, to try to get people, who primarily have
self-centered views, to try to get them to consider their
actions in relation to the collective. You might even
extrapolate it to mean that it is an unconscious desire
to get the masses to raise their level of consciousness, by
causing them to bring their awareness beyond the “egotistical me”.

All in all, I consider it a good thing.
If it turns out that humans play a large role in climate change,
then the motivated changes by such attention is beneficial for
continued physical life here. If, on the other hand, it
turns out that humans play a small or relatively negligible
role in climate change, the changes taken by green initiatives
will nonetheless improve local environments while simultaneously
helping to bring more of a mindfulness into the consciousness of
everyday living (i.e. consciousness raises as a side-effect).

S

>>>After Fusion I have become very self centered.:)
>>>If you are not centered in your self where are you?

Oh, come on. Don’t be a smart ass 🙂
There’s a difference between being ego-centric/thinking
only of your needs vs. wanting to uplift others as you
uplift yourself from a stable center.

Why do you want to be a HT instructor after all?

S