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There are maybe 100 years-worth of oil in the ground available for future consumption.
Meanwhile, the Amazon is burning, Brazil's president is all in a huff about his national sovereignty, Trump talks of nuking hurricanes as he snubs climate talks at the G7.
Back in 2001 (approximately), LA Times published three full pages on the melting polar ice cap in the Arctic, with pictures of people trying to navigate through it and reach China in a "northwest passage". I remember telling several people there should be a national program to convert our gasoline-powered vehicles to natural gas -- as I remember, the kits for doing it were priced around $500.
Now, every day, between watching that Despicable Wretch pontificate and embarrass us all with his toxic nonsense, and seeing "breaking news" about the Amazon fires, it is hard to avoid depression. I don't have a clinical problem with depression. I get angry, but not depressed.
But it is hard to take my mind off the very big likelihood that the world is "ending" as we know it.
It was half a dozen years ago when I came across the notion of building scrubber machines to alter the atmospheric carbon content that we've created over the last two hundred years.
Someone has actually started an enterprise pointed at that very objective:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531346/can-sucking-co2-out-of-the-atmosphere-really-work/
Granted, we probably have the most destructive and degenerate person in much of human history occupying the White House. The Senate majority leader thinks his only job it to control the Supreme Court and prevent anything from being done.
Yet, we went to the moon and came back. We cleaned up Southern California air. Things unimagined when I was a boy are a reality today.
WHY ISN'T SOMEONE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THESE POSSIBILITIES? Even if they put out the Brazilian fires, we're headed toward an unimaginable breakdown in civilization by 2040 or 2050. Why isn't anyone doing something? I'm mad as hell, and don't want to take it anymore!
Meanwhile, the Amazon is burning, Brazil's president is all in a huff about his national sovereignty, Trump talks of nuking hurricanes as he snubs climate talks at the G7.
Back in 2001 (approximately), LA Times published three full pages on the melting polar ice cap in the Arctic, with pictures of people trying to navigate through it and reach China in a "northwest passage". I remember telling several people there should be a national program to convert our gasoline-powered vehicles to natural gas -- as I remember, the kits for doing it were priced around $500.
Now, every day, between watching that Despicable Wretch pontificate and embarrass us all with his toxic nonsense, and seeing "breaking news" about the Amazon fires, it is hard to avoid depression. I don't have a clinical problem with depression. I get angry, but not depressed.
But it is hard to take my mind off the very big likelihood that the world is "ending" as we know it.
It was half a dozen years ago when I came across the notion of building scrubber machines to alter the atmospheric carbon content that we've created over the last two hundred years.
Someone has actually started an enterprise pointed at that very objective:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531346/can-sucking-co2-out-of-the-atmosphere-really-work/
Granted, we probably have the most destructive and degenerate person in much of human history occupying the White House. The Senate majority leader thinks his only job it to control the Supreme Court and prevent anything from being done.
Yet, we went to the moon and came back. We cleaned up Southern California air. Things unimagined when I was a boy are a reality today.
WHY ISN'T SOMEONE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THESE POSSIBILITIES? Even if they put out the Brazilian fires, we're headed toward an unimaginable breakdown in civilization by 2040 or 2050. Why isn't anyone doing something? I'm mad as hell, and don't want to take it anymore!