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NM_Birder

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28. How about a little intellectual honesty ? it would go farther than more scare tactics.
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 05:12 PM
Jul 2014

1) we outsource heavy industrial/manufacturing to countries that have little to NO air quality standards, then pat ourselves on the back for being "green".... because the air pollution was produced in a foreign land "we are progressive". The pollution is still created, probably in much greater amounts because of the lower regulations. LOOK HOW BAD CHINA IS, well we are buying our crap FROM CHINA, a country that is proven to not care about environmental anything. The cost of action is example, ..... "scientists" reporting half the data to support an agency agenda is the reason people don't take it seriously.

2) the scare tactics are not working, that is why re-naming anything is pointless. For 10 years "the tipping point", "no return", "too late to do anything", "BETTER WATCH OUT", etc etc etc has dulled the message to to flat warm beer, in other words ignored and discredited. The tipping point has been passed how many times now ?

The science is real, but the propaganda is stale, speculative, and in some cases just plain ignorant for the sake of the agenda.

"We're ALL GONNA DIE" ! yeah, that's a plan, sure has worked so far.








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How about a little intellectual honesty ? it would go farther than more scare tactics. NM_Birder Jul 2014 #28
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