Richard-H
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As we read about Climate Activists going round spraying orange paint on everything they can find to vandalize it, the question must be asked, what exactly do they want? What agenda are the pushing for? They never say. All you hear is they are upset nothing is being done about global warming.
The sense that I get is, they want the global economies to simply shut down and contract like during Covid. They want people to stop traveling like they do, they want people to stop buying houses and cars that are too big to fuel and heat and cool, they want people to have less money to spend as a rule in order to have this happen. People will then stop having as many kids because they can no longer afford them, and the human population will contract along with it.
That is the sense I get from all the Left-wing climate activists. They simply want less of you and want you to suffer in any way that is needed to get less of you and have you have less along the way.
This is not a good message.
How about this instead, find a carbon free source of energy like nuclear power and demand the world governments use it to its maximum potential? That would make far more sense that it would to demand everyone have to buy EV's that are more expensive and that can ever replace all the gas cars on the road that are fueled by electricity that comes from fossil fuels and makes no sense other than making people do with less.
I get the sense, however, that these people hate humanity more than they do climate change.
That is why these same folks hate nuclear power.
Political activists - of all types - are usually people that get a degree in Poly Sci, and have no marketable job skills.
So, they latch onto whatever cause is willing to pay them. Sometimes they may even believe in that cause.
They spray paint things orange because they can't think of anything better to do. everybody in the world is aware of Climate change (or in denial) . spray painting things orange changes nothing.
There are intelligent ways to work to fight climate change - like your suggestion of Nuclear Power, or giving tax breaks to businesses that allow their employees to work from home.
EV were a good idea, but ultimately a failure. Hybrids seem to be a reasonable solution.
I strongly believe that climate change is very real and a threat to humanity - but I'd rely on the opinions of scientists and the solutions of engineers.