Interesting article from an environmentalist. "Climate Scare" is not new to me, but he's an authority and I'm not.
On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare - Quillette
"Here are some facts few people know:
On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare - Quillette
"Here are some facts few people know:
- Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”
- The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”
- Climate change is not making natural disasters worse
- Fires have declined 25 percent around the world since 2003
- The amount of land we use for meat—humankind’s biggest use of land—has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
- The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California
- Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s
- The Netherlands became rich, not poor while adapting to life below sea level
- We produce 25 percent more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
- Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
- Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
- Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture"