If you aren't a gypsy and you received basic education in the last 15 years or so (or maybe you were one of the chosen gypos) you will remember being taught in school about global warming. It wasn't called climate change back then, it was called global warming, and the scare was all about the ice caps melting and the sea levels rising to armageddon leves, driving the vast majority of land mass underwater causing the collapse of humanity. Now the term global warming is no longer used and instead we have opted for the use of the term climate change. Do you know why the term global warming was phased out and climate change adopted?
I will explain.
The theory of global warming is as follows. Due to humans burning fossil fuels we are releasing carbon that has been locked inside dead dinosaur juice into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide. The C02 then builds up within the Earth's atmosphere, which in turn prevents the sun's heat energy from being able to escape as the C02 has formed a layer near the edge of the atmosphere. Global warming in it's original form is a perpetual cycle. One that doesn't predict for temperature's ever falling, only ever increasing continuosly on a global scale year on year for as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels without properly mitigating the carbon offset.
We know from first hand experience the unpredicatability of seasons has gone up but there has not been an absolute increase in temperature as global warming would have had you believing. Instead what we have experienced in many cases is that winters are getting colder and summers are getting warmer with more instances of extreme weather across the globe.
I believe greenhouse gases to be a red herring. Do I think burning shit is bad. Yes. It definitely is fucked. We are poisoning the air that we breathe but the human effects of breathing in this toxic air is never the focal point of this discussion despite the effects being evident. I refuse to believe asthma and lung related diseases increasing year on year is a coincidence.
Despite the scientific community firmly establishing a causal relationship between greenhouse gases and temperature increases (not decreases) they seem to be unable to grasp the glaring logical inconsistency that the Earth isn't simply getting warmer year on year. Basically these scientists don't know what the fuck they're talking about and their studies mean fuck all. They go with the status quo because a) they're highly educated but not smart people b) they want to appear smart so they follow what others have established as fact, in fears of being exposed as a fool or c) they are presented with financial incentives to lie or act with bias.
The answer to rising global temperatures is pretty simple. We saw a glimpse of the answer during lockdown. Human activity first and foremost creates a ridiculous amount of heat energy. Namely modes of transportation. Cargo ships, lorries, trains, ferries and planes all release a metric fuck ton of heat directly into the atmosphere. When all travel stopped during lockdown we saw a stabilisation in global temps for this very reason. Transporting food on a global scale on cargo ships is retarded. Why don't we try to source more food from local farmers instead of importing in massive amounts of goods from South America. If we invested more into sustainable agriculture it would decrease our reliance on the global supply (and market volatility) and strengthen our local communities which in turn would reinvigorate areas outside central London. This is what putting Britain first looks likes, not "Vote reform, fuck you muhammed". And we need to make sure the government incentivises big supermarkets working with these local farmers, ensuring they earn a decent wage for producing high quality goods. And we need to make sure that farmers are able to look after not only themselves but also the farms they work on. Ensuring we employ a more holistic approach to farming to reduce the harmful effects of industrial agriculture and the destruction that it brings to the soil.
Second is the continual rise of urbanisation & the destruction of grassland and woodlands. If you've ever spent time outside the city on a hot summer's day the temperature difference is just remarkable. This is because grass, trees and dirt are designed to hold in and produce moisture which offsets the sun's heat. Something concrete and asphalt are notoriously shit at doing. We've essentially created hotspots on the Earth's surface for heat to accumulate with no real method of offsetting it and it is completely unnecessary. The only justification that existed before for urban sprawls was the shortened distance to work from your place of residence making daily commutes more managable and this is becoming less and less of a factor for many. Humans need places to live, I understand that. But you don't need a concrete jungle anymore. It's unnecessary, it looks like shit and it's destroying the planet and there's are better ways of making human habitats.
Thirdly. Again if you were able to attend basic education you will remember being taught about surface area to volume ratio. If you don't get it, Google it. Now what do you think will happen if you put an island of plastic shite into the ocean. All sized differently with obtuse shapes making a bumpy fucking island of plastic. Congratulations you've made yet another hotspot for heat to gather; in the ocean this time.
Rising greenhouses gases are a symptom of the disease, it is not the disease itself. The disease is globalisation, urbanisation and our constant use of undecomposable inorganic materials, these are the things that must be addressed. If you don't believe me go outside and walk barefoot on asphalt on a hot summer's day, then try walking on grass/dirt, then come back and tell me it's fucking C02. It's not suprising scientists haven't figured this out since these loser motherfuckers haven't touched grass in their entire lives.
The rhetoric is and always should be, we are poisoning the food that we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink; what do we do. If what scientists say is true and they've been banging on about it for the last 20 years or so and governments across the globe have done the bare minimum to address it; either it's not as serious (or legitimate) as they make it out to be, or we are governed by literal psychopaths. Or maybe it's a bit of both.
I find the notion that the western world has no accountability in regards to climate change as the UK for example only produces 2% of the world's emissions, laughable. It's not as if western companies moved all their manufacturing facilities to India, China and South America in search of lower labour costs, paying slightly higher wages than the local companies could afford to, essentially creating a new era of capitalistic imperalism and slavery with slightly improved conditions. Oh wait that's exactly what happened. The blood has always been on the hands of greedy capitalists you fucking mongrels.