How will the efforts to fight climate change affect you personally?
So we're on the same page, this would include efforts to decarbonize, but it would also involve mitigating measures like favouring CO₂ over CH₄ (which is a much worse greenhouse gas per mole) and sequestration. There are other measures like tree planting, ocean enrichment, geo-engineering, etc., but that's for another post.
What's going to happen to me is I'll be paying more for fuel, for my home as well as my car, and everything will get more expensive as fossil fuels will be more expensive (due to taxation). Economies are fragile at the best of times, so who knows that that will do to my career. Now, what I'm expecting from climate change is harsher weather, threatening my personal safety as well as that of my house, increasing insurance, increasing biological threats, rising costs of food, as farmers find their crops harder to manage, and disruptions to my career, due to the aforementioned fragility. I'm optimistic that the wars that will be born of the increased scarcity won't affect me. But I've already had a tornado (never been within 100mi of one before) rip through my place of work (while I was at work). I've had cats all my life, but never saw a tick until a few seasons ago when I had to pull one out of her head (since then, I've seen a good half dozen). And speaking of blood suckers, any number of things can be introduced by mosquitoes. Tbh, I'm amazed at how disease carried by mosquitoes is as low as it is. Climate change might just give these flying hypodermics the edge they need to create the pandemics their supposed to. My career actually had a big boost this year, but it's in the automotive industry, so I'm not going to get complacent.
Climate change is going to hurt [i]every[/i]body. I think it likely that a very small number of elites at the top of the fossil fuel industry would be better off living in a changed climate rather than see their careers go the way of the tobacco industry, but that should be it for self-interested reasons for denial. I don't think the reasons for denial could be the science (or "science") that I'm sure is about to flood the comments section here--there aren't [i]that[/i] many tin-foil hat wearers out there. The only reason I can think of is sectarianism. Proponents of anthropogenic climate change don't have the right [i]look[/i] politically so, since they are the enemy, so is their politics.
Oh, btw, I'm a conservative. Politicians I identify with the most are usually the weakest and slowest on fighting climate change.
What's going to happen to me is I'll be paying more for fuel, for my home as well as my car, and everything will get more expensive as fossil fuels will be more expensive (due to taxation). Economies are fragile at the best of times, so who knows that that will do to my career. Now, what I'm expecting from climate change is harsher weather, threatening my personal safety as well as that of my house, increasing insurance, increasing biological threats, rising costs of food, as farmers find their crops harder to manage, and disruptions to my career, due to the aforementioned fragility. I'm optimistic that the wars that will be born of the increased scarcity won't affect me. But I've already had a tornado (never been within 100mi of one before) rip through my place of work (while I was at work). I've had cats all my life, but never saw a tick until a few seasons ago when I had to pull one out of her head (since then, I've seen a good half dozen). And speaking of blood suckers, any number of things can be introduced by mosquitoes. Tbh, I'm amazed at how disease carried by mosquitoes is as low as it is. Climate change might just give these flying hypodermics the edge they need to create the pandemics their supposed to. My career actually had a big boost this year, but it's in the automotive industry, so I'm not going to get complacent.
Climate change is going to hurt [i]every[/i]body. I think it likely that a very small number of elites at the top of the fossil fuel industry would be better off living in a changed climate rather than see their careers go the way of the tobacco industry, but that should be it for self-interested reasons for denial. I don't think the reasons for denial could be the science (or "science") that I'm sure is about to flood the comments section here--there aren't [i]that[/i] many tin-foil hat wearers out there. The only reason I can think of is sectarianism. Proponents of anthropogenic climate change don't have the right [i]look[/i] politically so, since they are the enemy, so is their politics.
Oh, btw, I'm a conservative. Politicians I identify with the most are usually the weakest and slowest on fighting climate change.
46-50, M
