Comments by "Adam Donovan" (@adamdonovan4071) on "We're Done With Caring About the Environment" video.

  1. Most produce grown in the US is consumed domestically, the Netherlands has a TINY population. A better graph would be percentage of WW food grown rather than exported.
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  2. I agree with most of what Simone is saying about the carbon vis-a-vis climate change vs global warming issue…but there is a wrinkle, “carbon” is not carbon. Please research GWP Global warming potential, you will notice the units on the chart is carbon. “Carbon” is actually carbon equivalent. All pollution is mathematically converted to carbon equivalent for comparison purposes. The depth of control is vastly deeper than you are even imagining. Honestly, please research this topic. Once you have, you will have no choice but to laugh in the face all the leftists demanding that we plant trees to save the climate.
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  3.  @almighty_cthulhu here’s a big one that drives me crazy (and both right and left get this wrong). Carbon dioxide is not the problem. For clarification, please look up Global Warming Potential (GWP)…you will find a chart. Tons CO2 is the unit in the chart, it is the base unit against which all other greenhouse gases are compared. Tetrahexaflourine and methane are converted to tons CO2 equivalent for analytical purposes. This was done back in the day to compare relative effect of different pollution agents, which makes sense. But every one has latched on to the unit and lost the forest for the trees. No amount of reforesting will make trees absorb tetrahexaflourine…(that’s where this has caused the left to go off the rails), and no, tetrahexaflourine is not plant food (that’s is where this has driven the right off the rails). I think environmentalism fixated on cutting carbon is hugely problematic because in the end it is entirely antihuman and anti progress, but I think most people pushing against them don’t actually understand either. I think the obsession with eliminating damage to the environment is being used to control people rather than actually trying to make the world better/healthier. I think we need to develop systems and processes that improve the environment rather than reducing damage. Improvement facilitates future growth, reducing damage prevents future growth. It’s borderline Malthusian. Ocean salinity levels seems like a really great place to try to make big improvements in the environment that will have significant effects on climate due to saltier water absorbing more heat without evaporation.
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