Originally Posted by
SLFMS
I’m with “Righty” on this.
Human life and prosperity is much more important than emissions. Therein lays the problem, people of the Green persuasion think the “planet” is more important than people all the while forgetting they are human too and likely contribute more to consumption and emissions than 90% of their fellow humans. Some of the biggest proponents have CO2 footprints larger than entire cities, Something I find very hypocritical.
As SASless eludes while there is a direct cost that’s easily measured the benefits are less tangible. This is a cheap and nasty headline grab.
The good news is the outcome from
CO2 is probably no where near as bad as you think.
I hear "mining for crypto" is incredibly damaging to the environment given how much energy it takes, yet I also heard that Musk supports it? So yeah, hypocrisy is everywhere.
That being said, I also hear they are raising the streets in Miami due to rising sea levels, so,...
Then again, removing all the police helicopters would probably have as much impact on "saving the planet" as their impact is on "saving the cities from crime", lol.