The environment is not a joke. EnvironMENTALists are.
This is such a complicated subject it's difficult for most to keep up.
City Smog is hardly new. London has suffered from deadly smog for hundreds of years. It was mostly caused by the type of coal Londoners would use. Some of it was Sea Coal and Marsh Coal. And it goes back to Medieval times. It's not new at all. And it's not caused by Diesels or cars. How could it have been in the 16th Century? Or even in the 1800's? It couldn't.
It's caused by overcrowding and burning cheap coal in Industry and in Power Plants. In the case of Medieval London, it was caused by personal coal stoves using horrible, but easily harvested, swamp coal. Today, they could at least learn how to use Super-Heated Coal. But nope, can't do that. They want to tear everthing down and start over. With them controlling it, of course.
Funny how that works every time certain elements in our society take over, huh?
You wanna stop pollution? Ban big cities. Or at the very least, keep the residents from openeing their windows. Especially in the Summer.
Farmer John and Hobbyist Jim aren't polluting snot. It's the Big Cities.
Of course, environMENTALists don't want to tackle the real polluters like the big Container Ships that use diesel fuel by the TON not by the GALLON. And we're talking tens of thousands of TONS of fuel per trip.
And you know what kind of exhaust cleaners catalysts they have on them? None. And they often use the most poluting fuel you can imagine.
How about Jet airplanes? How about when ManBearPig uses a Private Jet to transport himself and a couple females to a 'Climate Summit' on a Tropical Paradise Island in the South Pacific or a glitterati Ski Resort in the Swiss Alps? Know what kind of Filters and catalysts a Gulfstream uses? None. And Jet fuel is just refined diesel fuel. Go to an airport once in a while.
So it's not that we don't take the environment seriously. We just don't environMENTALists seriously.
Also, environMENTALists can cchirp and sing about their preferences but as soon as I tell them that they're full of it, it becomes political and therefore, not allowed. But them? Oh yeah. They can sing the praises of their lunacy all day.
Betcha a beer