All the talk about climate change just pisses me off. It doesn't matter where you look, there's talk about climate change everywhere. The news, the Internet, commercials, school. And why? I'm not entirely certain, but I think people are afraid not to talk about climate change, it makes them feel guilty or something. I am for sure though, that 90% of the people talking about it, don't actually know anything (scientific) about it. Its just going with the hype, I guess. And I hate that, because because of that, money is wrongly spent. It is, so to say, politicaly correct to talk about and spend money on climate change.
While I certainly believe there is a change of climate going on, I'm not really certain about the relativity of the human influence. Frankly, I don't really care; Its happening, whether or not we try to do anything or not. Do you think countries in development care about CO2 emissions? Or would they care more about raising their living standards to a satisfactory level? They don't care, they just want electricity and warm housing. And they want it the cheapest way. What I am trying to say is that the cheapest should always win, thats the whole idea about a free market. So what do western governments do to sell us 'green' energy? They subsidise it so its market-technically a better alternative. Great! Spending tax payers money on technology that is clearly inferior (else they would have been cheaper). Now of course they do this under the pretext that it is actually cheaper on the 'long term'. Now, the 'long term' is an interesting argument, because a 'long term' also caries new technological innovations, and there are quite a few to be expected in the field of energy production.
Given this, wouldn't it be wiser to spend the billions of dollars/euros now spent on the reduction of CO2 emission, of which it isn't even clear whether it helps or not, or on 1) the development of new energy production technology that are actually cheaper then oil and gas and 2) the protection against the consequences of climate change, such as the increasing sea levels? I sure think so. Unfortunatly though, while not really thought through being 'green' is currently 'hip' and politcally correct. Not talking about it and spending money loses you votes or sales from not informed green addicted junkies. Good game, people.
Let me tune in to another uninformed climate change debate now.
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Dit is niet OK