UN Climate Change Report (huge increases in gasoline taxes)

[AngelsLakersFan]

[Taylor]

28 minutes ago, Lou said:

To be fair, cals' ED chart has the same exact shape.

[Lou]

[Blarg]

3 hours ago, Lou said:

overconsumption, especially by the rich”, say the scientists

Somehow I can't see how less than 2% of the world's population can be the over consumption part of the formula. This sounds more like a power play to socialize more industries and make them government controlled. 

[fan_since79]

"The world will run out of oil in 10 years."

- U.S. Bureau of Mines (1914)

 

"The world will run out of oil in 13 years."

- U.S. Department of the Interior (1939 and 1950)

 

"The world will run out of oil and other fossil fuels by 1990." 

- Paul Erlich, Limits to Growth (1973)

 

"The world will run out of oil in 2030, and other fossil fuels in 2050."

- Paul Erlich, Beyond the Limit (2002)

 

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/eme801/node/486

Edited October 10, 2018 by fan_since79

[Jason]

Lol at Bureau of Mines

[Lou]

12 minutes ago, Jason said:

Lol at Bureau of Mines

How can i get on one of these boards? Do they pay well?

[Tank]

5 hours ago, Blarg said:

China set the date of 2030 to elimate the sale of gasoline vehicles. Part of the global climate change iniative is also reduce the quantity of farm animal production and make meat proteins less than 10% of any diet. The emphasis would be to change to a reweable plant source diet for the world so bye bye bacon. Also required is reforestation to battle the existing carbon footprint and eliminating coal production completely for an energy source. 

That's a whole lot of social reinventing to pull off in 12 years. They are never going to force all of that down the industrial nations throats. 

get with the program, sheeple!

doing my part since 1960.

[Lou]

I've been blowing through natural resources like a madman my entire life. 

[Tank]

2 hours ago, Lou said:

I've been blowing through natural resources like a madman my entire life. 

what's all this i hear about natural racehorses?

[halomatt]

On 10/9/2018 at 11:52 PM, Tank said:

what's all this i hear about natural racehorses?

[Lou]

there it is 

[RallyMo]

On 10/9/2018 at 6:15 PM, Blarg said:

China set the date of 2030 to elimate the sale of gasoline vehicles. Part of the global climate change iniative is also reduce the quantity of farm animal production and make meat proteins less than 10% of any diet. The emphasis would be to change to a reweable plant source diet for the world so bye bye bacon. Also required is reforestation to battle the existing carbon footprint and eliminating coal production completely for an energy source. 

That's a whole lot of social reinventing to pull off in 12 years. They are never going to force all of that down the industrial nations throats. 

You'd really think that scientists should have been advocating for changes for decades now. They just haven't been. 

[floplag]

My complaint about this issue is that how the hades will more taxes help it?  This seems unrelated.  

The really sad part about all this is that we act like our own little corner of the world will change it when were not the largest reason.  Many other nations such as China, even Mexico, put out far more greeenhouse gasses.   Unless its a global initiative, it means nothing really.   

Lets be honest be dont manufacture anymore, weve off shored it all to places without regulation.   Untill we force our corporations to either come back to the US or follow our laws even when abroad, its meaningless.    

[Lou]

17 minutes ago, floplag said:

The really sad part about all this is that we act like our own little corner of the world will change it when were not the largest reason. 

[Adam]

I watched Book of Eli last night. Looked like a fun adventure Denzel was on. I'm gonna buy V8 for my next car

[UndertheHalo]

The United States is a massive emitter of green house gases. 

So actually, our corner (large corner)  of the world does matter. We’re the 2nd largest emitter.  This idea that the US isn’t the only problem and therefore nothing should be done is horseshit.  

What’s “sad” is that people think that way.  The US has massive global pull.  If we change, we can work towards forcing others to change.  The Chinese government at least has goals on this topic.  Half of our government leaders pretend the problem doesn’t exist. 

The Europeans are doing a lot on this, if the US matches their efforts significant positive impact would be made. 

Edited October 12, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[Make Angels Great Again]

2 hours ago, Adam said:

I watched Book of Eli last night. Looked like a fun adventure Denzel was on. I'm gonna buy V8 for my next car

 

Such a good flick.

[UndertheHalo]

The Book of Eli is a fu*cking terrible movie. 

Edited October 12, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[tdawg87]

5 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

The Book of Eli is a fu*cking terrible movie. 

You're a fu*cking terrible movie.

[UndertheHalo]

3 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

You're a fu*cking terrible movie.

The Book of Eli is fuc*king waterworld except with desert and shit and Denzel.  

[Stradling]

On 10/9/2018 at 2:46 PM, UndertheHalo said:

Already seeing what look like mass extinction events.  It’s happening faster the you think Lou. 

You're right that the most violent changes probably won’t impact your life much if you’re in your 70’s now.  But as I’ve said.  The callous indifference some of you are talking about is pretty unfortunate.  Who knows if you’re serious or not. 

I’m assuming you take public transportation or ride your bicycle

[tdawg87]

Climate change is not a bipartisan issue. If you think it is or believe what you do because of what your party believes then you are a dumb fuckin shitheel and I hope you get AIDS.

 

[Lou]

27 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

The Book of Eli is fuc*king waterworld except with desert and shit and Denzel.  

not gonna lie, that sounds awesome. 

[Blarg]

13 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

The United States is a massive emitter of green house gases. 

So actually, our corner (large corner)  of the world does matter. We’re the 2nd largest emitter.  This idea that the US isn’t the only problem and therefore nothing should be done is horseshit.  

What’s “sad” is that people think that way.  The US has massive global pull.  If we change, we can work towards forcing others to change.  The Chinese government at least has goals on this topic.  Half of our government leaders pretend the problem doesn’t exist. 

The Europeans are doing a lot on this, if the US matches their efforts significant positive impact would be made. 

Imagine how much you could help by not using electronics that use resources to keep them charged for unnecessary reasons like posting how we are not finding solutions.