The whole "green movement" is a scam and an idiologic stupidity.
It does not make any difference if we abolish petrol cars in Germany, in Europe or even in the whole western world...
It does not make any difference if we prohibit the use of a fireplace or carbon based heating in Europe...
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This list could go on.
Any rational human will recognize that the carbon fingerprint of western societies is ridicule to the potential carbon fingerprint of the third world, once it starts having the same life quality as we have. What if every Indian or Chinese person has it's own car (like we western people have), it's own electronics (TV, phone, laptop, etc.) and eats a beef per day? And why wouldn't they be entitled to the same standards as we?
I am not denying climate changes, but:
1) The climate changes naturally on planet Earth. There have been ice ages and hot ages before humans.
2) The problem is not with "mother Earth": Earth will continue, no matter what, it is the humans that may be unfit to live in an altered Earth.
3) The single most important issue, that nobody seems to want to acknoledge, is that there are already too many human beings on Earth! And the growth is exponential! We are 8 billion people now, soon we will be 10 billion. In 1950 we were just 2.5 billion people.
Why doesn't anyone speak about the population size? Easy:
1) We live in a world run by a huge pyramid scheme, where today's retirement plans are paid by the tomorrows tax payers. We need an increasing population to avoid the system to crash.
2) In order to pay interest rates, we need to grow the economy, so that more is produced and yesterday's loans can be paid with interest today.
3) The richer can only get richer if there are more people.
This cycle needs to be broken. Retirment should only be paid to the extend of what you have put aside. That money is to be invested in a secure way. But you should not receive more than your savings.
Interest rates need to be abolished.
Migration has to be stopped. We cannot compensate the lack of births in western countries by importing masses of people from third world countries.
This planet needs less people and every couple should have only one child. There, I said it.
Will it contribute to the population growing older? Yes it will.
How will we finance it? I don't care - people need to work until they die or make their own retirement plan.
What cannot continue is this exponential grow in population, that combined with increasing living standards will absorve more than this planet has to offer.