My friend Charles, environmental studies major at Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas, asked me to complete a survey for him for his class. I'm to be the one opposition voice on the topic of climate change. HAHAHA. I thought he'd have fun with this one, and I thought I'd put my answers up here to stir the waters a little. Enjoy~!
A) Age and gender: 24, Female
B) Is climate change real or made up for the sake of politics?
The climate changes; that’s real. Man-made global warming or climate change is a scare tactic to get people to think that what they save or recycle matters more than it really does to make people feel good and feel like they’re in control of something. This becomes political because this “feel-good” movement translates into policies enforced on the rest of the populace that only denotes more power for the government and less individual rights, as well as limiting open dialogue and criticism to uncover the truth and really talk about the bare facts of climate change. Pollution, acid rain, deforestation… all these are much more pertinent environmental issues we can grapple. Taking it to the next (an obscene next) level dubbing it “global climate change” when we can’t even accurately predict next week’s weather is fundamentally ridiculous and the dearth of information and proven facts point to mythology more than climatology.
C) What is climate change, what is the cause of climate change today?
The climate goes through changes regularly, although how “regular” that is may be in larger scope than we think. Climate change is a vast and complicated process with many factors, the profundity of which is difficult if not currently impossible to fully comprehend. Thus, it is highly doubtful that mankind’s activities on earth have manipulated the brunt of climate’s change because despite the amount of carbon emissions we emit and CO2 we produce, the earth is and has been capable of volatile changes as stark as the most recent ice age being only 1,500 years ago to massive global warming as well as global cooling. A volcano erupting sends tons more toxic materials into the atmosphere than any booming industrial economy and natural fires (without human intervention through firefighters) would completely scorch the earth and leave nothing but charred carbon. Basically, the world left to its own devices would do much more “damage” to itself than if there were not a human presence on the earth, but also even if humans did not exist the earth would survive. It survived meteorites and dinosaurs and everything else evolutionists believe, and yet scientists cannot believe that the earth will survive “global climate change”? Today, the cause of climate change is substantially lessened, as human life and development on this earth has mitigated a lot of the volatility that the earth is capable of. There are immediate, viable environmental issues such as pollution, deforestation, etc, but they dwarf in comparison to the drastic changes the earth is capable of undergoing.
D) What are supposed to be the ramifications of climate change?
The ramifications of climate change are supposed to be volatile environmental conditions, shortages of food/water/resources, and general death and destruction—all within a ridiculously short timeline of the next 50-100 years. It was predicted in the 1970s that with 4 billion people in the world, the earth would come to an end within a decade because of how much it would take to sustain such a population and the effects that population would have on the environment. We are now closing in on the first decade of the new millennium with a population of 7 billion and counting, and we are doing just fine. People in the world live better today than they ever have before, and science never stops innovating to adapt to whatever the changing scenarios demand.
E) What are ways to act to mitigate the impact of climate change?
There are no feasible ways to mitigate the impact of climate change. Experts agree that it would take a complete overhaul in the way we live (or the complete overhaul of life itself) to make even one single dent in this massive process called climate change. In that sense, no conservation of energy, toilet paper, or fuel will really do anything and our greatest efforts toward mitigating climate change would be negligible at best. Climate change is an issue that goes beyond our current realm of understanding, just like evolution, God, or the universe (just think about the word ‘cosmic’) so it is best understood in baby steps, not in leaps and bounds of desperate theories forcing square pegs into round holes in the effort to make some sense. If we want to mitigate pollution of our air so we can breathe better and not have acid rain ruin our clothes and make our hair fall out, then that’s an issue we can deal with. If we’re talking conservation of energy or getting off of our dependence on oil because the people who have it hate us, then that’s a topic worth grappling. Too much (especially political power playing) has been stuffed into the concept of “climate change” and it urgently needs to be parsed and adequately analyzed to actually make sense.
haha. thanks for reading. I'm sure it was difficult for some of you.
Bring on the haterade~
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