romanov
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Why should corporations keep the liberty to pollute and yet not be held unaccountable for its consequences? That isn't 'individual liberty' at all.
I dismiss the premise of your question. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. You exhale it all day long. The carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere is not a pollutant. Is it a green house gas? Sure. But which came first, the chicken or the egg? Did the warming come first and then the carbon dioxide or as your side says, the carbon dioxide came first and then the warming?
Well, what about silver mines found under glaciers? And that's not the only thing that's been found under glaciers. They've found forests. They've found entire agricultural centers under glaciers. How did those things get underneath the glaciers unless the glaciers weren't there to begin with? And I know, glaciers move but if they'd plowed over these things, they would have been erased.
The polar icecaps are back up to 1979 levels when they first started measuring the thickness of the polar icecaps. Did you ever wonder how submarines can go underneath the north pole? Did you ever see that picture from the 1950s of the submarine conning tower sticking up out of the ice? the way they did that is the submarine would look for a thin piece of ice and the the submarine would just knock a hole in the ice and pop up. The polar ice cap is a big old gigantic ice cube floating around. It melts. Bits of it break off. It floats around doing what the polar ice cap has been doing for thousands upon thousands of years and it is bigger now than it was in 1979.
Let me tell you a story about what happened in 1912. Just 62 years after what is commonly believed to be the end of the little ice age, this big hunk of ice broke off from a glacier in Greenland. And Greenland was called Greenland because when the vikings got there, it was green not ice covered. And this big, massive chunk of ice floated as far south as the grand banks. And this little ship, I believe it was called Titanic, hit it and sank. This was way before the earth really started heating up. We're just in a warm cycle. That's it. Our contribution, if any, is miniscule compared to the natural forces of nature.
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