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“Profound Lifestyle Changes” Required to Fight Climate Change
Posted On 17 Feb 2016
European Union leaders, eager to begin cutting carbon emissions in accordance with promises made at the Paris Climate summit in December, say that it will take more than wind farms and solar panels to get the job done. In a series of documents presented to Belgium foreign ministers on Monday, the EU advocated a radical approach to the threat of global warming.
“It will require exploring possibilities for realising ‘negative’ emissions as well as profound lifestyle changes of current generations,” says the documents, obtained by the UK’s Guardian newspaper. “The potential scale of such a deep transformation will require a wide societal debate in Europe.”
To meet the terms of the agreement, the EU will have to cut carbon emissions until they are 40% below where they were in 1990. With only 14 years to get it done, leaders are being forced to look into increasingly dramatic measures that could indeed change the way the average European lives their life. While the EU has not yet gone on record to specify which “profound lifestyle changes” are required to meet the goals, they will likely go farther than shorter showers.
According to a recent story in Scientific American, individuals can do their part to combat global warming by moving closer to work, switching to bicycles or mass transit, and even limiting procreation to one child per family. The UN has proposed cutting red meat out of our diets due to the excess methane produced by cattle farming.
But these methods of tackling climate change have been resisted by some of the world’s most dedicated environmentalists. In a story last November, Young Friends of the Earth Europe said that the emphasis on individual action was largely a “myth” meant to shift blame away from the real carbon culprits.
“Focusing on individuals renders the system invisible – but climate change is a systemic problem, requiring a systemic change,” wrote the activists. “When the narrative shifts from ‘we need to change the foundations of the system’ to ‘we need to shop differently’, the story has been derailed.”
One thing is certain: if the environmental left isn’t even down with your climate proposals, your little movement has run off the rails.
Fact is, people aren’t going to be motivated to embrace a more difficult lifestyle to avoid a theoretical future filled with monster storms and rising sea levels. Life, frankly, is hard enough as it is. When you are behind on bills, struggling to make ends meet, and trying to raise a family, you don’t give a tinker’s damn about “going green.” Unfortunately, this (inconvenient?) truth is going to inspire our leaders to force the world to change in ways that will make life a little bit worse for everyone. You know…the exact opposite of why they were elected in the first place.
There is no climate change! CO2 is necessary for plants to live. Got a problem with CO2….get plant, they convert it to Oxygen.
Only during the day!
Same theory goes for solar power. Also, if there is no wind no wind power. Never mind the fact that the expense of these two systems far outweigh the potential energy savings. All of this, of course, if you buy the theory of human caused climate change.
MY point is that CO2 is not a problem, it is natural and impossible to eliminate.
Do NOT forget how the Solar and wind power ARE responsible for killing off THOUSANDS of endangered species and other birds and bats. If this was a conservative Idea, the Environazis-Green Weinies would be up in arms and suing to have all these installations shut down.
I suggest you do research there is two forms plants get their energy from. One during the day called the light reaction and one during the absence of light called the dark reaction. Both result in Oxygen production. look THEM UP
The Crebb cycle produced CO2 when I went to school.
More lefturd bullshit, GFYs and STFU!!
Ohhhhhh… THAT was such an intelligent remark! I’m sure people are going to give a ‘listen’ to bratty baby talk!
More idiotic spew from the leftist turd and true believer in climate change that refuses to do his bit to help by “OFFING” himself. His breath is spewing MORE CO2 everyday along with his lifestyle.
Hey Obama the only thing hot was the NOAA print outs you had changed to fit your pucking global warming agenda. you black turd. Its time for the world to flush you. Why dont you tell China they dont have the 30 years you put into writing to comply with the clean air act.
I still love how the left uses Carbon as a substitute for what they are really talking about Co2 . Carbon in most people’s minds congers up a image of something black and dirty,, Co2 is colorless of course and life giving in its effects, so obviously a rebranding was needed,,Thus Carbon,, Thus Climate Change for the old Global Warming.
This is so typical…do as I say, not as I do….Make everyone else responsible, but I’M not gonna live like that!!…..Idiots….
If these liberals were really serious about”Global Warming” climate change,or whatever the phrase of the day is,they’d give up their huge private jets and bicycle to where they”need “to go. One trip to a “climate conference” on various private jets produces enough”carbon footprint” to offset thousands of normal people’s lifetime emissions. Of course,like gun control,it’s a matter of one standard for the elites and quite another for the great unwashed[in their minds] masses. They have multiple armed guards,but expect us to protect ourselves with a telephone.
“Good for me but not for thee”..
NO No; “That’s good for THEE but not me” (The greedy politicians and grant grabbing “researchers)
Yeah, little while after I wrote that was thinking “ahhh, other way around”!
These people need to go away.
And we won’t miss you!
FOAD libtard tinkerbelle
Your point is?? We still won’t miss you… you’re STILL here?
We CERTAINLY wont miss YOU, WHY are you still here polluting the atmosphere and contributing to global warming?
Because you are a typical liberal turd and moron saying, “Let others suffer BUT not ME.”
IF population and mankind is “responsible” for climate change; WHY don’t you help out by going out and committing suicide? Every little bit will help in your opinion wont it?
Believe me, when nature has had enough of mankind, she will take care of that situation.
Look at the dinosaurs, other animals, societies like the Incas.
No nature is not angry yet.
Left wing Idiots are running the Western countries. They are trying to turn us into 3rd world nations. If obama is so concerned about climate change, he needs to stay out of Air Force One. Heck he lives in that blasted plane!
Take responsibility for your own life and shaddap about ‘da plane’! Ignoramus!
You are the ignorant one. You want to live like people in 3rd world countries live? Do you want to live under sharia law?
AND then we get the brain dead liberal turd spewing.
Video conferences are much cheaper in dollars and energy. But then he couldn’t try out the local links.
And that plane belongs to the taxpayers. Wonder how we could refuse to pay for all his “vacations”?
This is bullshit. Obama is already into “deep transformation” which is code for bringing down America’s democratic society and replacing it with “executive orders”. All the carbon dioxide and global warming crap is simply an ploy to take money from us so the elite can build bigger palaces.
Systemic change needs to begin with institutional entities.
If your global climate change has to be blamed on something, blame it on the birth rate of third world countries that are overwhelming and overpopulating the earth. The scary part is that there is an answer to the population crisis and it is called wor5ld war where millions can be eliminated. Remember the millions that perished in WWII and the economic boom that followed? Think about it. The problem is that the populated poorer countries aren’t worth bombing so it will be the city populations that are decimated. Wonder how many liberal global warming fanatics will survive it. Every country will have nukes and the religious nut cases who think they will have plenty of virgins in heaven will have no problem pushing the button. And liberal morons are sealing their own destiny while they support religious nut cases as long as they are not Christian.
I blame it on George M. Melby.
‘Climate change’ is a hoax perpetrated by leftist loons to destroy capitalism. ‘Period’. As Obama, the mouse that roared, might say. Get rid of capitalism and, Shazam!, progressives take over control of the means of production and with it the people. Carbon Dioxide is one of the most ubiquitous elements in the universe and plants love it.
It started with the club of Rome in the late 60’s, early 70’s. Their goal is a one world government. They came up with the idea of global warming as a way to get the world to unite against a common enemy. Its on their own website.
Interesting…Sounds like something George H.W. Bush might have been involved with, Doug. I remember shortly after he was elected in 1988, right out of the box he started yapping about the ‘New World Order’ and he threw Reagan under the bus with his ‘kinder, gentler nation’ meme. And it was all downhill from there. After he went back on his promise NOT to raise taxes, he was toast. I wonder if his fingerprints were on that Club of Rome thing, too?
I have no doubt that the Bush’s are involved in it. So is Al Gore, as are many, many heads of state. If you go on their website, you can see who its members are. Oh, and George Soros is also a member.
http://www.clubofrome.org/index.php/membership-of-the-club-of-rome-2/
Thanks!
According to the lead scientists at NASA (I tend to trust them), climate change is a farce! The climate is doing nothing more and nothing less than it has been doing for millions of years! I believe, that once the planet grows tired of mankind, it will purge itself and live on, at least for several more millions of years. CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FRAUD!
You are correct. The climate is at the mercy of a very complicated natural system of seasonal changes, solar variance and the Earth’s massive molten core that exposes itself in hundreds of places at any one time. The randomness of all of these cause temperature changes, both higher and lower. This isn’t rocket science or require a PhD.
Poor plants and trees. They will die if we eliminate their life source. No plants? No trees? Where will that leave humans? My suggestion is for all those worried about climate change (ie bureaucrats). I suggest they stop taking their expensive trips around the world in their private jets. End of the problem they think we have.
They could also remove their rose colored glasses, give their stuffed unicorns to Goodwill and stop drinking their communist Kool-Aide. That would be a painless start. Then give yourselves a good cleansing enema, maybe two, if needed to rid you of your liberal constipation, much like you do before you have your queer boyfriends over for a wild weekend. The rest of the World would request that you go back into the closet and give us a break from your Alinsky like whining and angry fits. You should, also, try going to a shrink to work on your mental problems. Good Luck.
I’ll tell you UN and EU socialist commie arse holes something. Why don’t you try to do your own drastic life style changes first, then the US of A will sit back and watch you crater into Anarchy and lawlessness and return to the Dark Ages. When your corrupt “leaders/commie bureaucrats try to migrate to the US, sorry about that, go back home/to where you came from. It’s your mess, clean it up yourselves. Leave us alone to enjoy the most successful Nation on the face of the Earth, ever. We baled your arse out once before and you failed, again. No more mister nice guy.
Fortunately, you will have no say as to what the USA does with its military might. Go back to your coloring books and try to stay within the lines!
MOre spew from the lying liberal turd who refuses to kill himself and help stop “CLIMATE CHANGE”.
Asinine, BS !!!
Think back to when every thing was burnt , coal heating , wood & coal cook stoves , blacksmith shops , Now we have a problem .
Suicide vests cause global warming.
Warming, Population explosions, Coming Ice Age… winds… etc. Problem is, I’ve heard all this from many sources including profs & speakers back when I was in college in the 70’s. I think the guy’s name is Paul”something” that was big at that time, with the anti- nuclear, anti-population and they were all predicting global Ice Age by 2000. Well. just like all the predictions of Christ’s return, it didn’t happen!
Even though I was young & stupid enough to vote for Barry Commoner & go stand in the street protesting nuclear sites over in Illinois and listen to the diatribe from professors without asking for proof or seeking facts, I finally opened my eyes & ears & came around to Conservatism & seeking factual information.
Truth – it’s what matters!
GLOBAL WARMING IS THE DUMBEST THING SINCE BARACK OBAMA
I doubt that Humans can have much effect against the natural cycles of the earth. The emmissons standards put in place on the US automotive industry starting in the 1960’s have had little effect on “Cllimate Change” and has increased the cost of an auto considerably, and reguardless of what the Govt.is telling you lightweight cars are not as safe as those made with real metal of a weight thick enough to protect you. Absorbing energy is fine, but many lightweight vehicles crush completely if hitting a solid object. Cars of the 50’s could drive away from a 10 MPH collision. That can total many of today’s vehicles.
I thought Germany needed workers an that why they opened their arms to migrates. Now Brussels says decreace family size to be “greener”.. Seems confusing…
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BULLSCHTTE!!!!!! It’s all a power play by diplomats and unelected government officials to grab more power and taxes from the working people. To HELL with them – they should taken out and shot at dawn for treason and high crimes.
Those who thought Agenda 21 was silly, should read it, and think again. “It is time to feed the hogs.”
The cure for global warming is for all liberals to stop exhaling .
More climate warming bullshyte; When the politicians, scientists and the “true believing” idiots ALL give up their Jet flights, polluting SUV’s, shut off their TV’s Computers and home heat, shut off their refrigerators and MOVE into much smaller homes. Then maybe I’ll believe in “climate change”; But it has been proven to be a load of BULLSHYTE, lies and manipulated and false data. NONE of their “models have been able to correctly predict the climate and they can’t even duplicate the PAST HISTORY of weather. It’s all about big grants, taxes and total government control.
The EU Loons and all the Climate Change Clowns can stick their Global Warming where the sun don’t shine! God is in charge of the Climate, always has been, always will be! All this Global Warming crap is to line these corrupt politicians pockets with more money and to give them more power! Tell them all to go suck a big one!
History repeats it’s self, there is NO CLIMATE CHANGE ARE GLOBAL WARMING, its all made up BS that the do nothing EPA, (an organization that should not exist)keeps crap stirred up to keep getting federal funding to see how many elaborate party’s they can pitch, u tree huggers need to do some real research rather that listen to the socialist Communist liberal Democratic IDIOTS.
SERIOUSLY ! IT’S TIME TO STOP THIS BS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING! WORRYING ABOUT COWS RELEASING METHANE ? NEXT THING ON THE AGENDA WILL BE TELLING HUMANS THEY WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO FART ! OR BURP !
WHEN AIR FARCE ONE CAN OPERATE ON WATER TO CARRY THE PRESIDENTIAL ENTOURAGE
(WITH GUNS) ON THEIR MILLIONS OF DOLLAR VACATIONS, I’LL GIVE UP RED MEAT. BUT FIRST LET ALL THE UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE WHO WE ARE SUPPORTING WITH WELFARE (SNAP INCLUDED) BE ADVISED THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED “RED MEAT” AND LOBSTER OR LIQUOR, AND CIGARETTES.
HOW ABOUT HAVING THE PRESIDENTIAL ENTOURAGE USE MINIVANS INSTEAD OF THOSE MONSTROUS SUV’S (BULLET PROOF OF COURSE, BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT DERANGED PERSON IS OUT THERE LOOKING TO MAKE A DEBUT FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME) AND ALL THE SECRET SERVICE(SECRET?) GUARDS ARMED WITH A CELL PHONE TO CALL 911 IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY JUST LIKE ALL THE LIBERALS WANT US TO DO.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE !!