With climate change largely accelerating because of human activity emissions of CO2, methane & other greenhouse gases, a bunch of climate tipping points have already been knocked out of balance, leading to unprecedented runway changes in climate & weather that will make it much harder for children born recently to thrive in the future.
When compared with the 1960's, look at how the trends are changing going forward.2X more wildfires
3X more river floods
3X more droughts
7X more extreme heat waves
Storm systems that are much more severe & destructive, far more energetic hurricanes & tornados!
Damage to agriculture will increase the cost of commonly consumed foods.
Housing scarcity due to huge demand from increasing human population drives up housing prices.
Water pollution like acid rain from carbon emissions & water stress makes domestic, drinking and irrigation water more expensive.
Fuel becomes more expensive, from natural gas to bio-gasoline or hydrogen, no free lunch in physics.
Currency inflation means the money keeps losing value or buying power, making basics more costly
We are cheating future generations with foolish fossil fuel abuse now. I am talking about wasting fuel so one person can drive around a 9 passenger SUV single occupant mode getting under 20 MPG when it's possible for that same person to drive a hybrid electric car that gets 50 MPG, with plenty of capacity for children & grocery shopping or daily commuting.
Even a used Nissan LEAF or similar cheap used EV works for in-city around town trips where conventional cars get their lowest mileage or lowest fuel economy in stop and go in-city traffic congestion conditions common in big cities.
With climate change we are talking about physical & chemical processes that cannot be negotiated with politically or bribed with money like big corporations often do with world governments.
What about the healthcare cost increases of people suffering from breathing air pollutants emitted by combustion processes, like coal power plants emissions or at oil refineries? Those air pollutants are toxic to human lung & brain cells, liver & kidney cells, to the pancreas, colon, bladder, breast tissue, vaginal tissues, skin, eyes, the nose & throat cells & other organics, especially the lymph nodes & apocrine glands.
Many pollutants are hormone balance disruptors known as POP or persist organic pollutants that resst being broken down in the environment because they were designed to resist breakdown as pesticides to kill pathogenic pest species encountered in industrial inconsiderate mono-crop mega farming operations where 10,000+ acres of GMO corn by Monsanto are grown or industrial cotton where 56 different pesticides are sprayed during its cultivation.
A lot of toxic chemicals sprayed in agriculture are based on petrochemicals, so we see the carbon fuel industry making huge profits in downstream chemical industries with horrid ecological fallout like the bee killing neonicotinoids, causing colony collapse disorder for example. If they simple switched to spraying the pest control chemicals at night when the bees are not out foraging, that would help save the bees.
As an Environmental Scientist I feel morally convicted to share this information to put public pressure on law makers to phase out carbon combustion to reduce the harmful impacts on public health that common air pollutants have on increasing healthcare costs & making people sick with preventable diseases by causing hormone or immune system imbalances and or having toxic effects on lung & brain cells or worse.
We know how to make abundant clean electricity using nuclear fuel breeding reactors in new fission reactors that can make clean green electricity for 10 billion people for thousands of years with virtually no or super ultra-low carbon emissions. Noting that some carbon will be released by the diesel fueled mining vehicles and fuel burning logistics trucks & ships moving nuclear fuel elements to reactors around the world.
Many pollutants are hormone balance disruptors known as POP or persist organic pollutants that resst being broken down in the environment because they were designed to resist breakdown as pesticides to kill pathogenic pest species encountered in industrial inconsiderate mono-crop mega farming operations where 10,000+ acres of GMO corn by Monsanto are grown or industrial cotton where 56 different pesticides are sprayed during its cultivation.
A lot of toxic chemicals sprayed in agriculture are based on petrochemicals, so we see the carbon fuel industry making huge profits in downstream chemical industries with horrid ecological fallout like the bee killing neonicotinoids, causing colony collapse disorder for example. If they simple switched to spraying the pest control chemicals at night when the bees are not out foraging, that would help save the bees.
As an Environmental Scientist I feel morally convicted to share this information to put public pressure on law makers to phase out carbon combustion to reduce the harmful impacts on public health that common air pollutants have on increasing healthcare costs & making people sick with preventable diseases by causing hormone or immune system imbalances and or having toxic effects on lung & brain cells or worse.
We know how to make abundant clean electricity using nuclear fuel breeding reactors in new fission reactors that can make clean green electricity for 10 billion people for thousands of years with virtually no or super ultra-low carbon emissions. Noting that some carbon will be released by the diesel fueled mining vehicles and fuel burning logistics trucks & ships moving nuclear fuel elements to reactors around the world.
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