Five undeniable facts with serious implications that people are ignoring
Nothing could be more obvious today – a serious Environmental Problem is threatening the future of our children and grandchildren.
Satellite photos from the past 5 decades until today show that arctic ice is still gradually but continually disappearing. As a counteracting, mass balancing compensation of a closed system, the coldest part of the earth (Antarctica) is continually collecting snow and ice that would otherwise have precipitated at the north pole.
Indisputable temperature data for the past 5 decades until today shows that the earth’s surface is still gradually but continually warming and this corresponds with continual increases in levels of atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.
These trends correspond with gradual and continual growth in global population and energy consumption and also with a gradual and continual increase in man-made destruction of natural forests for cash and conversion to commercial crops and grazing.
There is also considerable loss in biodiversity through gradual and continual extinction of species, worse flooding and droughts on different continents.
Scientific analysis of these trends leads to only one logical conclusion: Human activities are changing the earth’s biosphere and climate. It’s really so obvious and there’s no other way of explaining everything. Research indicates other marked changes in climate and vegetation in long past ages and we can only guess at the cause – an asteroid hit or maybe ancient civilizations that destroyed themselves leaving only small groups of survivors to start again. But people like Donald Trump and all his crony capitalists who are supposed to be intelligent just don’t get it, or so they say.
Attempts by ecologists and climatologists to avoid a future environmental disaster by advocating taxes on fuel sales and subsidizing so-called “green energy” are admirable but ill-conceived. They mistakenly blame relatively negligible and harmless Carbon Dioxide produced in combustion engines for the problem when in fact the real cause of global warming and extreme weather is destruction of the earth’s natural forests for capital gain and the increase in atmospheric Carbon Dioxide is the effect not the cause.
The five corresponding trends mentioned above form a set of interacting factors that explain what’s happening:
Global population growth and increasing need for food, lumber and urban development provides increasing market demand and incentive for destruction of natural forests.
Fossil fuel production increases to meet demands for cheap energy needed to exploit natural forests and transport lumber, among other demands.
On-going (often illegal) destruction of natural forests removes the most important part of the earth’s biosphere for absorbing and storing solar energy and atmospheric Carbon Dioxide through the production of green biomass.
Gradual and continual loss of green biomass decreases the earth’s capacity to absorb Carbon Dioxide and moderate temperature fluctuations and weather patterns.
The apathy of educated people, especially governments and those who should know better serves to aggravate the problem because apathetic and irresponsible ignorance allows the problem to continue as we see today. It’s also understandable that politicians have no easy solutions to offer their generally ill-informed and confused electorate and it suits both parties to do and say nothing. Scientists who should know better are typically corrupted by lucrative academic salaries to publish reports that support their paymasters – profiteering multinational corporations and irresponsible governments. The most astute, honest and unbiased scientists who sound the alarm are ridiculed, denounced and side-lined by the mainstream media owned by groups of billionaires who make too much money from the status quo to worry about the environment and future generations. The typical attitude of billionaires is that someone else must pay the price, not me. We are told “Love is blind” but actually “The love of money is even blinder.”
Gradual and continual change can be ignored for now but blissful ignorance will eventually turn to disaster and regret when people realize that signs and warnings were all around them – all published in the alternative independent news sites of the internet, but most of the public were too lazy to investigate, too afraid to think for themselves or they simply preferred blissful ignorance.
What should we do about this? Train our children and grandchildren in traditional survival skills because billionaires who control multinational corporations and our governments are only concerned about their own families and will not take care of our children and grandchildren when the crisis takes place.
