As George Carlin said, "The world is not going anywhere, WE ARE"!
Coronavirus lockdown causes global emissions to fall
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I would not be surprised if she is actually thinking maybe humanity will learn something from this until she wakes up and realizes humanity will just keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Humanity can't learn from its mistakes.
Lemme solidify our doom with one simple word. Greed.
So I dunno what it is like elsewhere, but again lets go with the good old UK who have a bunch of privileged school boys ( it is who you know, not what clearly) running the country into the ground.
Now back in the 90's we lost all our pension money thanks to a guy gambling on the stock market and he was doing really well... and f'd it up.
Our government has not got us out of debt since then.
How do you pay yourself more money each year when your country is in debt?
Make people pay more taxes? Make more people pay more taxes?
Increase population, increase housing, and you increase more jobs?
No more jobs, more people in the country, more refugees that we can't handle.
More houses yes, but money grabbing building companies buy land and maximize profit by building houses that have no parking, or not enough.
Consider that all houses should have parking for 4 cars. Mum dad 2 kids. ( if you have more than 2 kids you don't get that your contributing to the lack of resources on the planet but hey ho, humans right? duh! )
So no parking, cars parked on roads, no parking anywhere so everyone gets fined.
More cars on road, going to work at 7am now is pushed to 6am, then 5am because roads are maxed out.
So roads in constant gridlock see a rise in respitory problems, pollution as cars sit still on the streets, especially where small towns have taken up more housing and yet using the same roads.
Answer more roads? Sure, why not. More roads, for more cars... or maybe less people, less cars, less houses, less green land covered in concrete, a cleaner happier earth with resources for all...
You can not make a utopia/better world, because you would have to make a fair system, where people are actually paid what they are worth, and CEO's and rich figure heads wouldn't be able to hide money off shore. But because they do, the infrastructure of society is weak, and we constantly pile more crap onto it. And a virus like this is an inevitable result of populus rising. And then everything grinds to an almost halt, and debt goes insane because, basically, capitalism is flawed.
This article only proves that we on the roads are killing the planet, and that one month stopped sees a drop? And we will go back to our cars, and the government are loving the idea of these expensive electric cars, which will not help what so ever with pollution. slow it down by a small percentage? Which will only be negated by people with large families.
We had it right with trains and the idea of monorails, but we didn't build towns and cities the way we should have because they had to have character and some designer make something fancy which, yay looks good, totally impractical.
I could so keep ranting but pretty sure no one will read nor agree.
Sorry, high and a lil bit weird
koblongata
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True, air quality has been awful past few days, the pollution came all the way across the sea to Taiwan, they must be on turbo mode now.
Modern human sacrifices for wealth and power.
Levels of what are gone? Most pollutants dissipate from concentrated areas like cities *every day*, it doesn't take a month. Check out any weather app that follows the hourly pollution levels, in my area they are dropping like a rock by 6pm. The reported numbers here are just obvious things, showing that with fewer polluting practices, we produce less pollution.
PEnnn
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Did you really read the article??
Our lesser impact (l000s of factories NOT pouring smoke and gases into the air, less air travel, fewer cars on the roads, less travel of any kind, etc..) is leading to less pollution, less harmful, emissions, cleaner waters, etc.
And you claim we have no impact??
PEnnn
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You mean to "normal" weather again.
cliffordcooley
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I did believe there was a greater impact, until I read the article. Did you not read how quickly the impact dissipated?
Ludak021
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Actually, number of humans is starting to decline because people are having less children then they did before (and it's also genetic ). Even if it were not, there is plenty of space left on the planet.
Numbers are declining only in some parts of the world. However other more fecund parts are more than making up for those local deficits. Overall numbers of people are still increasing and based on long term trends, we'll level off by about 2050.
Note however that the article mentioned the rate of increase of CO2 production had slowed. But it's still increasing even through this temporary lull. I was rather hoping it was going to decrease, even a little bit.
Darwin was a quack.
And a few weeks on the "chill the **** down" pill, humanity will do just fine.
At the very least, air and water will recover some.
Eckhart Tolle said some of the same words. It was strange at the moment, thinking nature has its own way, but apparently it does. Remember, dinosaurs lived for 180 million years, and then...
The way we are going now the human race won't last 100k years.
And that is without assistance from external forces out of our control.
ShagnWagn
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amstech
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You mean by those same people voting the same politician in again, term after term after term. They need to stop listening to the BSing media and vote the incumbent out every election, regardless of party. But too many drink the BS koolaid spouted by the media.
I would not be surprised if she is actually thinking maybe humanity will learn something from this until she wakes up and realizes humanity will just keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
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