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Paul's avatar

Cameron,

It doesn't bode well for the future's unfolding, but we'll have to see.

Toleration by The People, I imagine can only last so long, if a father cannot feed his kids, because he cannot use his gas powered truck, for work.

Hopefully The Politicians have read your Piece & are drawing up counter measures.

Thank You.

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Marcion's avatar

I very much support an effort to help individuals get in touch with their carbon footprint. Most people have no idea.

But only the brainwashed would believe that they'd be giving us accurate information. Has anyone seen the windmill graveyards? The electric car graveyards in Europe? Built-in obsolescence. For anyone who listened to the California hearings last month, these cars last 8-10 years and nobody has any idea how to recycle them, or even if they're recyclable.

Most importantly, everybody already knows that only the 0.0001% cause the vast majority of the world's pollution (including carbon emissions). To be exact, 100 companies cause 71% of global emissions:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

So the focus on individual citizens (MY carbon) is really just another propaganda campaign to get us to consume more - more panels, more electric cars, more fancy furnaces, more Energy Star appliances. And I have a spoiler alert - we can't consume our way out of a problem caused by consumption.

For me, I plan to keep coddling my 1990's washer/dryer, my 1980's hot water heater, my 20 yr old pickup truck, as long as I can. Modern appliances don't last anywhere near this long.

Mixing all this nonsense with crypto takes away all the transparency they claim to have. I have a very strong suspicion that the CIA was involved in Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX funneling money to Ukraine, Iranian rebels, Democrat politicians, and probably much more.

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