And how many degrees will the earth cool down if everyone switched to EVs? The truth is that everything related to “carbon” has no quantifiable value. It’s like tithing at a church with the hope that God smiles upon you. How many tons reduction of CO2 results in a movement of the temperature? Let’s be precise because if we are making policy on this, the public has a right to know the exact benefit. And is the cost of that less expensive than the cost of not doing it? What exactly is the cost of not doing it? I’ve been hearing for 20+ years how we are just ten years away from disaster. 10 years is just long enough that it’s a few election cycles — so the politicians pushing this nonsense are rarely accountable for being continually wrong. Nothing in Al Gore’s movie came true. Ice caps were supposed to be done by now. They aren’t. So why are we still following that religion? It’s like a modernized version of a doomsday cult: “repent or rising seas will destroy the cities with the wrath of a vengeful Climate God.”
Are we allowed to question any of this? Shouldn’t someone be following the money to see who is getting rich off of this and who is enacting the policies that make those people rich?
Without those numbers, how can we determine if something is “progress?” We should be focused on real pollution: chemicals in the air and water, plastics in the ocean. CO2 isn’t a poison, nor a carcinogen, nor a toxin.
Why doesn’t the environmental movement unite behind banning high fructose corn syrup? Obesity in the U.S. is killing more people than climate change ever will.