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RE: Shadybug's cold insanity, random photography
I am glad to hear no metals were harmed in 2019 and that you are keeping warm in
-52!!!!
weather. The cat is the smart one sitting on top of the heat vent.
I suppose no matter how you feel about fossil fuels, the truth is we are depleting them faster than they can replenish. I think our negligence in not developing alternatives is detrimental to everyone. Even if it won’t be our lifetime where we see them used up.
There are too many people on the planet milking every resource from the earth. Ultimately the planet will go on. We may not.
As always your pictures are breathtaking. 🤗
He is smart isn't he!!
That's a valid point that they are being depleted faster than they should, lots of it has to do with a collective of wasteful ways. My pet peeve is single use everything or the way they manufacture goods, package foods where things need to be shipped 3 times around the world before you get it, I consider that a waste. Everything plastic is made out of fossil fuels, people forget that. Not so much using the fuels themselves for driving or heating our homes. It's the over consumption of garbage that is driving this off a cliff and that's an individual consumption habit problem but it's easier to blame the production of goods than to look in the mirror and fix it by not buying every trinket they come across or the newest electronic gadget that they will get bored of in 2 weeks. Same as everyone needs their individually wrapped snacks and goods that come with 3 layers of packaging. Most people have no idea what oil/propane/natural gas is in, it's even right in the food.
The thing people forget, energy companies are just that, they don't care what type of energy as long as it sells they'll produce it. The thing is green research doesn't fund itself, fossil energy companies and government fund and test those initiatives not protesters. Same as the courses at my school is partially funded by them as well. When people fight them and make them unprofitable they leave and don't fund squat. We do build units that take the emissions out of the fuel and uses it for another application but these plants cost huge amounts of money scaring investors away does not get them built. Instead it leaves the dirty crappy old ones functioning for decades longer. Seriously tho, over here the oil just kinda oozes out of the ground and it needs to be cleaned up from nature one way or another because it's leaking into rivers and trees are growing messed up. Looks better after it's been reclaimed, some sites have herds of bisons moving back in.
I agree, when the planet had enough it will just get rid of us and replenish. We need to scale back on how we produce things. Personally I am more mindful of where my stuff comes from and their ethics before buying.