One of the biggest myths is that Climate Change will end human existence and our species will only be saved when we surrender all individual liberties to government.
It’s interesting that the supposed solutions to global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it are the exact things that the left has been after for decades: punitive taxation, redistribution of wealth, and government control of industry. It’s a back way to socialism.
I’m for real change, but when the top 15 freight ships in the world produce more green house gases than all of the cars in the world combined, 90% of the plastic in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers found in Africa and China, yet the western world never includes these countries in their global warming tax schemes like the Paris Accord, isn’t that a red flag for people that can critically think? We have so many global warming taxes on gasoline in California, raising the price to over $4 a gallon when most of the country is at $2.50 a gallon, where are those global warming tax dollars going? What results do we have to show for it? California year after year has some of the worst air quality in the western world. Where are the results?
Sources:
Freight ships: https://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/02/report-pollution-from-15-of-worlds-biggest-ships-equal-that-o/
90% of the plastic in the oceans: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-just-10-rivers/
Link to the study for the above article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368
Air quality in California: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article235443087.html
Link to list of worst air quality by cities in America for 2019: https://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/sota/city-rankings/
Highest gas taxes in the nation: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article231643868.html
Severin Borenstein is a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and faculty director of the Energy Institute at Haas and is a leader in studying transportation taxes. He can’t account for where all the gas taxes on a gallon of gas sold in California goes to: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-borenstein-gas-tax-and-mystery-surcharge-20181011-story.html
All species go extinct. The climate has changed before man, during man, and will continue to change after man. The only way to survive Earth, is to escape it. This is the way.
