AZGrizFan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:19 pm
UNI88 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 11:47 am
As usual, you and I aren't that far apart. I believe that humankind is contributing to the warming. How much is debatable and while it might not be the primary cause, I think it's significant. Democrats want to be heavy-handed while Republicans want to pretend the problem doesn't exist or isn't significant. The answer, as usual, is somewhere in the middle. I agree that sending us back to the stone age isn't the answer. We should be making better use of known sources (nuclear), innovation and financial incentives. China needs to be held to the same standard as the west when it comes to reducing their impact.
I don't think Republicans want to "pretend the problem doesn't exist"....but we DO want to solve the problem within the context of our place in the world and not destroying our country and economy simultaneously. That simply can NOT be the solution. Additionally, tying BOTH of America's hands behind her back while simultaneously ignoring the vastly larger amount of pollution pumped into the air, land and water by countries like China and India is, per usual, a disingenuous double standard that is applied by the left and makes all their blathering about wanting to "save the world and the environment" just a bunch of hot air...meanwhile they jet around the world in their private jets and feel better about themselves because they purchase carbon offsets.
Problem is, in our political world and discourse, there are some, exclusively GOP'ers, who do deny that the problem exists. And because of our media and our politics those views are amplified and it looks like more people actually believe that.
The rest of your post is right - the best way to solve this issue is with innovation and with new technologies, and the Climate Change lobby has been way too long focused on draconian measures (for others, not themselves as you indicate) that have no chance of working and even if they did, no one would want to live in that world. The Greens vilified nuclear power for so long that the easiest and greenest solution we have hasn't been used enough, and have even convinced early adopters of nuclear, like Germany, to give all that up (to disastrous effect in terms of both climate and in terms of geo-politics like we're seeing in Ukraine right now). The big wild card has been and will be China, and to a lesser extent the rest of the third world. We could lower our pollution to zero and we would still have a problem globally.