I agree with everything you said. The scaremongering that I've heard from the 70s till now and the science community not refuting the claims makes science look untrustworthy.
The rapid pace of warming seen since the industrial revolution is/was no more "inevitable" than lead poisoning your rivers just because lead occurs in nature. It took human activity to do that. The only reason you don't recognize that is because your favored political tribe sold out to corporate interests a few decades ago and chose to feed you a bunch of nonsense that supported their agenda and helped keep the industrialists rich.
So we are to be good stewards of the Earth except when extracting and using fossil fuels. But petrochemicals are a diminishing resource, that's a fact however much you want to argue about when they will actually be exhausted. They are an essential source of lubricants, of petrochemical industrial feedstocks and have many other uses for which substitution would be difficult. It would be a really good idea to conserve fossil petrochemicals carefully. Instead, we just burn them up. That may count as "good stewardship" in your world view, but as a practical proposition it is not very smart.
It doesn't affect the climate. The climate is going to fo whatever the climate does. We aren't going to stop it. Like I said we could all go back to horse and buggy and the climate is still going to change. Its been warming since the ice age. Our cars are super clean. We have regulations on all.our factories. We are constantly making improvements. I think we are good. What we should be doing is looking into ways to mitigate tge effects of change. It's goingvto happen. We can't stop it. What are we going to do to mitigate it? Adapt to it. If we are smart we would be working hard to find ways to adapt to the changes instead of putting so much effort into trying to alter something we have no control over.
It appears your political tribe has decided once again that it has the power to control everything. Life would just be utopia if we just did whatever the leftists want because they know best. And what we'll do is scare everyone and make victims of everyone so they'll give us the power over every aspect of their lives.
Haven't you heard. We've got at least 200 years of it left. I'm sure by then we will have found new ways to propel us along. Haven't you heard the earth is still producing oil. There's oil all over and we are still finding it and finding ways to get it. Meanwhile we are also finding ways to be more efficient with using it. And we will continue to do so. Look how far we've advanced over the last hundred years. Think how far we'll have gone in two hundred more.
It's definitely a tool to control our lives. But that's an aside. The left will use whatever scare tactic it can.
We aren't goingvto do that. Didn't you read what I said? We are finding new ways to do things and will mist likely find new ways to propel us along so we aren't using it at the same rates. The earth is creating more oil all the time. Between everything we aren't going to use it all up. In two hundred years the left will have somethings else they've grabbed onto to tell us how we are destroying everything.
"We can't do that" is basically an argument from incredulity. They can't fathom humans operating on a global scale, therefore, it's not possible in their minds.
And even just intuitively, youd think billions of people burning stuff for transportation, industry, household power, etc would have some bad global effects.
There's a little bit of religious fatalism woven in there: God is going to rapture the Christians and destroy the world, so there's less incentive to keep the place nice.
