Climate Change/Happy New Year!

For some reason, I see many people who want to think that it doesn't exist or that they know everything about it. Here are the facts: The EPA and NASA have been measuring a rise in CO2 in the atmosphere and a general warming trending in the ocean, with temperatures expected to continually rise. Far lesser mentioned facts however are that trees breathe in CO2, humans breathe out CO2, methane strongly contributes to global warming and farmers keeping so many animals in such a small area is exceptionally bad for the environment, and major deforestation has occurred at the hands of humans. Humans are being so simple minded to assume that there's one simple solution to a complicated, long exacerbated problem that's been festering for far longer than we'd like to acknowledge, and we should have learned long ago after banning CFCs, which no one seems to remember, which were destroying the Ozone layer and caused a general cooling trend, that our gas emissions have a direct effect on the environment and that we, unfortunately have a tendancy to create a few problems for ever variable we change.

I would like to know who are the 97% of scientists the media constantly cites to justify telling everyone to drive electric cars? And I often wonder if they're too stupid to know that by simply not having cut down so many trees and replanting as much as we take, not keeping mass quantities of cattle shoved in such small areas, and not having overpopulated we wouldn't have such a serious problem? Or are the media and/or these "scientists" intentionally only telling part of the story? Are they being paid off? Many scientists are in someone's pocket. Is the public seriously ignorant enough to believe someone had a chance to ask 97% of the people across every scientific field their views on global warming? It's highly unlikely, and I'm personally guessing a scientist is just asked a yes or no question about believing in global warming and the media runs with their version of global warming regardless; they turned it into a political issue.

Global warming is not a political issue; humans are contributing to an atypical trend in the natural flow of climate change by allowing too much CO2 and CH4 to be released into the atmosphere and causing above normal temperatures. It's only natural in the sense that humans are natural; humans are having an impact on the larger trend that is dangerous for our own survival long-term, but then again, maybe it's only natural for us to destroy ourselves? Despite what the media tells you, you don't need to feed the capitalist system by buying an electric car to have any positive impact in the evironment: plant a tree, grow your own food and hunt wild game for your meat, walk instead of drive... Maybe not all of these or all the time, but my point is that everyone can make at least a small difference without having to buy a car that will do its own damage to the environment in due time anyway! Try to live in moderation, and try not to damage nature in excess of what is natural for you as a human being.

In 2018 let's all remember that we're stronger together than apart, in unison with nature rather than resisting it, and let's make a positive change; happy new year!