Great CO2 Scam

Curtail greed or die. Simple choice.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and is partly responsible for increasing global temperatures. There are other reasons, but CO2 is surely a part of the problem. The pressing question:

Is fuel usage and energy production
causing climate change,
or is it just a scam?

It is fascinating that everyone who isn't in any commercial enterprise should minimise creation of CO2, but that commercial producers (money makers) can continue with little real discouragement: Aircraft Pollution. The effect is that the many 'guilty' producers curtailing their contribution are allowing the fewer big producers to continue theirs. This trade-off minimises the overall nett addition to the atmosphere. A highly dangerous and specious argument. Consider how many cars it would take to match the CO2 levels of one medium size commercial aircraft for one flight. Transporting goods or people: commercial. There seems to be no shortage of, or limit to, fuel for these leviathons. But a few less litres of petrol for the cars is a good thing. It's all about maximising revenue while doing very little about making inroads to cut down, or out, use.

Distance-tax

Bush will (generously) consider curtailing CO2 production and maybe contribute to the overall 50% reduction by 2050. But do little over the next 40 years by dithering around. Until it's too late. Other countries are just a little less obvious in their attitude. But talking a good argument, yet doing very little. Making noises to frighten the people [the FEAR = Factual Exchange for Accepted Reasoning strategy again (DA)], but doing little (if anything) to manage the real culprits.

But money talks the loudest

Over the next decade the global population will increase enormously. Even the CO2 just being respired by a global population will amount to a huge addition to the daily atmospheric tonnage of CO2. Consumption of forests will accelerate and the production of CO2 will continue to escalate: exponentially.

The lungs of The World are being destroyed. It's fascinating to witness 'spin' in action. Carbon dioxide is now regarded as pollution so logically every animal that breathes, and so produces CO2, is an active polluter. Even though breathing out (pure) CO2 is part of the life cycle. In fact, all animals that breathe oxygen (to live) actually remove a pollutant: Oxygen. If animals didn't breathe this gas, its concentration would increase to dangerous levels causing atmosphere fires, for example. The (hidden) argument is that The World's minimal producers (the majority) are penalised so that the major producers (minority) can continue to pollute:

The USA represents 5% of global population,
but produces about 25% global CO2.
Overall some 13% of the so-called rich countries
produce around 45% of global CO2

Hidden beneath all this is the supression of 'poor' countries. The minority of 'rich' nations create the majority of greenhouse gases. That's how they became 'rich' nations in the first place. Suppress the development of everyone else so the 'rich' nations can get richer. Simple economic strategy.

How much CO2 do humans respire in a year to stay alive? Whatever the figure, it can only increase as the global population continues to grow unchecked. It is possible that the global population is being allowed to swell out of control to create an ever growing consumer population. The population that buys 'goods' is getting bigger and that equates to more profits. Perhaps the 'poor' countries are not the target buyers ('rich' societies represent the monied buyers), and 'rich' countries are growing larger by the day. The actual overall growth in the 'rich' nation (buying) population, is masked (hidden) by the global figures.

The best place to hide a tree?
In a forest. Nobody notices

Short-term blind thinking gets shorter by the day. Bizarrely, it's to make as much money as quickly as possible since the time to make money is running out. What 'wealthy' people can do with their money is unanswerable.

King Midas

The sole village idiot displays more sense than the combined global idiots that fill the world. Profitability and growth are proportional to CO2 production. India and China are joining the production teams.

Things can only get worse