Originally Posted by
Less Hair
All this "panic mode" people are in is a professional psychologic strategy to get the public to do things that some super rich donors and campaign masterminds in the dark want to happen.
Any meaningful change for a cleaner environment must not be done in activist campaign "panic" mode but on the very long run by trial and error. People must be convinced not tricked into wanting things or being forced anyway.
Listening to a family who farmed olives in Portugal, discovering that their house, farm and near neighbours were 100% surrounded by fires with no escape, and had to literally fight and win over the fire to survive...
I guess they might say it was well time to panic. Oh and that wasn't last week, that was back in 2017. A very large number of the farmers and locals who live off the land in Greece, Italy, Spain, and Southern France, after last week, might well say that the panic word was also totally appropriate now. And I suspect that the Brits-on-holiday won't be rushing to rebook Rhodes and Corfu next year either.
The sad loss of pilots on the Canadair water bomber brings the problem straight home to the aviation community. Don't think crashes like this aren't going to happen every summer. Yes you are 100% right to blame Construction, O&G, Pharma, Shipping, Automotive, Retail, etc. for the problems as much as/more/less than Aviation, but that doesn't make the problem go away, and as we all live on one planet (that takes but 12hr to fly across) we are all in this together; if we don't all act now, it will get worse, and we will not only suffer extreme weather incidents, but as large chunks of equatorial areas become uninhabitable those populations will move out to be tomorrow's refugees; it won't be a million or 2, it will be much much more. "Small boats" will become commandeered "large ships". Rwandan solutions don't scratch the surface.