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So lemme get this straight. Your solution to Chinese pollution is we stop buying their crap. Maybe we should have though about this solution before we exported all that manufacturing capability to them. NIMBYists. But, if we bring it back, don't expect them to make less themselves without...

I can't blame an economic system for pollution. The old Soviet Union had far worse environmental problems, although it is fair to point out that even communists require capital for their system. Humans are by nature greedy. Greedy rich, greedy poor. Greedy businessmen, greedy welfare...

Air quality is about reducing concentrations of pollutants. One of the factories I worked at happened to be close to a coal generation station. Because the total particulates was too high by the new standards, they had to increase the height of their exhaust stack. This distributed their...

China made things for the US because of the NIMBYists. Environmental regulations raise prices, so it's easier to make a profit in a country where a worker can dump a barrel of toxic waste directly into the river with their EPA guy right there telling him not to do that, but nothing more...

One thing I will always remember about the Covid shutdowns was how fast the air cleaned up. I could see distances much more clearly. China has horrible air quality. I bet they had an even more distinct change. That doesn't stop them from commissioning a new coal plant every week, though...

I'll be a whole lot more sympathetic to the movement when the hypocrites are exposed and booted by the rank and file en masse. Part of the political motivation to jump on these bandwagons is that that narcissistic politician knows he will have a cheering section that will literally let him get...

I can go below zero net carbon emissions, and for every hundred of me there will be a John Kerry burning fuel like it doesn't matter, because frankly it obviously doesn't to him. Are you going to take away the private jumbo jets of the environmental elitists? How about Jeff Bezos and his...

I have to go back to 2009, so, yeah, it has a been said before. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ten-most-important-climate-change-skeptics-2009-7?op=1 I am curious as to whether they still hold their position, or others have joined them. Given my online experience with Covid, which...

We in the US and the EU are already boycotting Russian oil. China is maintaining their partnerships with Russia. India is maintaining their partnerships with Russia. Even NATO member Turkey is still buying Russian fuel and probably more. That's a pretty populous block of countries that...

Correlation does not mean causation. For instance, frozen biomass doesn't deteriorate nearly as fast as it does at 90F, and all those little microbes release CO2. In warm periods, the south American rain forests are net producers of CO2.

I am hopeful for the future, but I don't have much hope that third world powers will invest in a global climate issue when they don't even take care of their local pollution. If it's not voluntary, it ain't gonna happen, will it?

We can't wait another fifty years for the Thorium solution IF the problem is now. This is exactly how the environmental movement discredits itself. You miss the point. The Russians and the ChiComs and the Indians aren't affected by taxes in the US. The world is awash with fossil fuels...

Fair enough, although I haven't trusted NASA in over a decade. This remains unanswered, though. How are you going to make China and India cut emissions?

One assumption folks make is that we know. We may have evidence, but there are plenty of concensi that get stale. Climate change may be the result of changing magnetic poles, which seems to be causing increased havoc. If this was normal, I would expect someone to prepare for it. SpaceX...

How are you going to do that?! You can't consider that unless you intend to kill lots of people. We don't have enough lithium to make an immediate transition. To further complicate things, you cannot mine lithium without fossil fuels. Or nickel, for that matter.

You are assuming two things. First, climate change is anthropomorphic. Second, we can do anything about it. The ChiComs commission a new coal fired plant every week, so how are you going to enforce a climate policy on them, or India for that matter. Three Mile Island happened when I was a...

No need for taxes. Just make EVs so good and so affordable that it doesn't make sense to use anything else. Change comes when the choice is clear. Alternative energy, for instance is only alternative because it doesn't make economic sense, but, once it is competitive it becomes the standard...

If you leave California, please don't vote for the same sorts of people that turned your once great state into a shithole. And don't move to Portland. We've already been Californiated.

Apparently they switched from a fiber shield to a HDPE shield. My car, delivered in February, had a plastic shield, at least. I just replaced them with ones comparable to what you ordered. I had a squeek the first day of driving, which was frustrating because the car from the factory had...

I put mine on a week ago on my 2022 M3. The back has a squeek, now, which is probably my fault for not using a torque wrench on it, so I need to get back under it and do it right. IMO, having been under it, the upgrade is maginally better than the plastic OEM plates. You probably won't run...