Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "This Is Not a Climate Bill: Leah Stokes on Why Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Doesn’t Go Far Enough" video.

  1. The power elite, no matter where they arise or infest the populace, have only one motivation: to maintain and increase their power. It doesn't matter if they are a democrat or a communist they are all the same under the skin. In general there is something fundamentally askew with anyone who desires to have political power over others. And remember this, political power, ultimately means the control of the monopoly on violence.
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  2.  @lostpony4885  Yes: my guess is that at first silver and gold will be the money, then as the harsh reality dawns on people, freeze dried food, seed, and bullets. Then we will eat each other and our babies, like has happened so many times before in famines. If this were inevitable it would be one thing, but we could totally reverse the climate change in very little time, but -- and this is a big but -- we would have to reforest all the land that has been cleared for the grazing of livestock. And basically people would have to stop eating meat and dairy products, which they are quite addicted to. So, though complete wasteland, like you find in the Middle East can be revived in just a few years, by stopping the grazing of sheep and goats and replanting native grasses, also the meat and dairy industry would have to disappear because people stopped buying their products. By the reforestation of the land that is now used for grazing, we would reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases by 87%. It is not just the one percent and their political minions that would have to evolve consciously, it is the average person. That I find most improbable. What I see happening is too little too late, and a massive die off of humanity, with the end of civilization as we know it. And of course the one percent, hiding in their bunkers in New Zealand and private islands, will eventually be dug out and killed in horrible ways. -- Just saying. Maybe Elon Musk and company will do better on Mars, if they make it, and eventually re-civilize a world that has descended into a new dark age.
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  3. I don't know where you live, but where I live (eastern central PA) there are signs in front of virtually every business and plant begging for inexperienced workers to start at from $15 to $23 per hour. Many with a signing bonus.
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  4. This is so lame, they will not touch the largest cause of climate change: animal agriculture. IF all the forests that were cut down to provide pasture land since 1800 were allowed to reforest we would have no climate change. Look at the middle east, huge tracts of wasteland, caused by ignorance and subsistence grazing of sheep and goats since way before 1800. Yet it has been proven over and over, that if you stop the grazing, and reintroduce native grasses, IN A MATTER OF YEARS, fresh water springs will appear because the aquifers have refilled, because the grasses allow the natural water and moisture to penetrate the soil and not just run off. Then in a little longer forests will start to grow. This will work in land that is currently totally barren. Yet this is never, ever addressed by politicians because of the money from the meat and dairy industry. Heat pumps, induction stoves, etc. are these people morons? 86% of the greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture, not to mention the fact that it has also been proven over and over by real science (that science not underwritten by the meat and dairy industry) that the meat and dairy you eat is killing you. The WHO has classified processed meat products as class one carcinogens same as plutonium and cigarettes. You have been the victim of a relentless (not "unrelenting" as the people who say "wheelhouse" instead of "purview" would say, lol) disinformation campaign. Wake up and let the planet and yourself return to health. Their is so much disinformation on this matter, that if you find you way clear to a realistic narrative it is almost miraculous. And the effect on your health will indeed be miraculous.
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