Are we actually living in 'The Age of Stupid'?

[Mr Fowler]

Haha yes, let's blame the farting cows.

 

Not far wrong. Agriculture and predominantly agriculture related to livestock farming is one of the worst things for the environment.

[Woodworks]

Can't see it matters if climate change is man made or not as our course of action should be similar. We should stop squandering finite fossil fuels regardless. Look at all the incredible things you can make from oil and what do we do? BURN IT to make electricity that can be so easily made from renewables. Can imagine future generations looking back at today and holding their head their hands at our stupidity and shortsightedness. It seems our democratic system stops governments looking beyond the next election so we never see policies for the future.

 

You don't have to look far to see we live in the age of stupid

[Billhook]

It is hard to find the truth when the facts are distorted by politics and money.

They were growing grapes in Lincoln in Roman Britain in a period much warmer than now and yet they were not driving Range Rovers or setting fire to rain forests. Perhaps it was the farting horses pulling the chariots Mull?

 

What we can agree on is that we all want to breathe clean air and conserve our natural resources. Going electric and cutting out fossil fuels is a good idea to help solve those problems and may help the perceived warming issue to satisfy those who believe in man made warming.

 

In the mean time I shall watch the weather in Mexico where things seem to be much hotter!

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ePG6zUYvUZg

[stihlmadasever]

It is hard to find the truth when the facts are distorted by politics and money.

They were growing grapes in Lincoln in Roman Britain in a period much warmer than now and yet they were not driving Range Rovers or setting fire to rain forests. Perhaps it was the farting horses pulling the chariots Mull?

 

What we can agree on is that we all want to breathe clean air and conserve our natural resources. Going electric and cutting out fossil fuels is a good idea to help solve those problems and may help the perceived warming issue to satisfy those who believe in man made warming.

 

In the mean time I shall watch the weather in Mexico where things seem to be much hotter!

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ePG6zUYvUZg

 

I totally agreed with your post until i read the last line,now filled with a jelous rage...mexico!!!....hot!!!.... ahhhhh....

[timbernut]

A very pleasant distraction!😛

[the village idiot]

There is an embarrassingly large amount of clean energy available to us, we just don't have the guts or the foresight to realise it's full potential.

 

The Sun emits enough energy to melt a bridge of ice 2 miles wide, 1 mile thick, and extending the entire way from the Earth to the Sun (93 million miles), in one second.

 

Obviously only a fraction of this energy hits the Earth, but it is still plenty. The amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface exceeds our world's entire electricity consumption by a factor of 20,000!

 

We currently harness about 0.1% of this potential. Why desperately scrabble for polluting fossil fuels when we are literally bathing in all the energy we will ever need?

 

Guess who spent the morning on Google?

[SteveA]

But how are you so sure it's man made C02 emissions that cause this Steve? As previously stated extreme climate swings are widely documented and nothing new

 

I'm not sure about the science of it all because I'm not a scientist.

But regardless of whether or not it's a man/woman made thing, I think it's sensible to look at our own actions & pollutions..... globally.

 

cheers, steve

[difflock]

Yes we are indeed "living in an age of Stupid", where stupid must be employed and trained to use complex machinery, and cannot EVER be held accountable for his/her shortcomings.

No-one is accountable for anything, problems are all Societies fault, or the Banks, or certainly someone else's.

As I saw again recently quoted in respect of a local accident, "the car skidded off the road " not the Driver lost control of their vehicle.

We all make mistakes, but many refuse to accept this, especially in respect of their off-springs shortcomings, which is then magnifed down through the coddled and supported generations.

The best example would be our nations failing Health, due to personal refusal to live healthy, BUT "they" should be able to make us all better, with "free" magic medication.

"a pill for every ill"

Typified by the COPD smoker outside the Hospital with the close-tethered Oxygen bottle.

Marcus

Edited December 31, 2015 by difflock

[Goaty]

I was in Trinidad in 2010.

Sweltering it was, windy also being in the West Indies, sunny nearly all the time.

No solar power, wind turbines or other green energy. Because gas and oil is plentiful, as everywhere and everything use the easy option first.

[Stubby]

Can't see it matters if climate change is man made or not as our course of action should be similar. We should stop squandering finite fossil fuels regardless. Look at all the incredible things you can make from oil and what do we do? BURN IT to make electricity that can be so easily made from renewables. Can imagine future generations looking back at today and holding their head their hands at our stupidity and shortsightedness. It seems our democratic system stops governments looking beyond the next election so we never see policies for the future.

 

You don't have to look far to see we live in the age of stupid

 

A picture paints a thousand words / Priceless .