Climate change has gone too far!

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  1. ScooterBrandon

    ScooterBrandon Senior Investor

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    I can handle the droughts, the famine, rising sea levels, species extensions and most of the current effects of human induced climate change.

    BUT I think it's gone too far when it starts messing with my beer!
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...med-for-putting-belgium-beer-business-at-risk

    If you are a true beer lover then you know about these amazing beers from Belgium that are made from wild yeasts. Well we may see the end of this amazing brew if European summers keep getting shorter.
     
  2. crimsonghost747

    crimsonghost747 Senior Investor

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    OMG. This is the day I start taking climate change seriously!
    I think I must start drinking more and more belgian beer... like many bottles a day... so that I can have enough before it disappears!
     
  3. Susimi

    Susimi Senior Investor

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    I wonder if this will eventually cause people to panic and start stockpiling Belgium beers out of fear they will stop producing them.

    I've just got a funny thought of people shoving creates of the stuff into their carts at the store in a panic.
     
  4. Scooby Snack

    Scooby Snack Well-Known Member

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    LOL a nice bit of dark humor for the day.

    You know, honestly I don't even know what to believe anymore. I know how the media skews the narrative (or, more accurately, they want to SELL me a narrative), but the other side of the coin is that we're experiencing a natural shift in world temperatures that have been recorded for ages, and that carbon has very little to do with it. I just don't know anymore. All I can do is be as mindful as I can. I just need there to be accurate information out there, so that we as a species can prepare for the future as effectively as possible.
     
  5. pwarbi

    pwarbi Senior Investor

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    While the OP was intended as humour, I think it's a reflection of how people do feel when it comes to climate change. Unless it actually affects our lives at the moment, people aren't seeing it as a major threat to society as a whole.

    I'm inclined to agree with that way of thinking also, and I think there is more serious issues the world faces today.
     
  6. Alex

    Alex Senior Investor

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    Funny how people only notice or are bothered by an issues when it directly affects them. Then they sit up and take notice and realize that people wee making a fuss about something. Climate change has affected the world, and will continue to do so and affect humanity in other ways that we won't have foreseen.

    Now we are taking all this information seriously, but it's not to late to still salvage things, or is it?
     
  7. crimsonghost747

    crimsonghost747 Senior Investor

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    Well yeah, it's kinda hard to understand how it could be so devastating when, at the moment, it does nothing. That being said, there is evidence to support it and quite frankly we (as a society, not as individuals) should act to slow it down/stop it. This needs international regulation, you separating plastic from paper does NOTHING in the large scale when factories in 3rd world countries are polluting like no tomorrow.
     
  8. Susimi

    Susimi Senior Investor

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    As they say, "every little bit helps" but yeah I agree that there needs to be much more action on climate change then there is and I only think the world will start to act when it is far to late to change things and then complain that we should have done something sooner.
     
  9. JR Ewing

    JR Ewing Super Moderator Staff Member

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    As long as places like China and India continue to do what they do, any measures the rest of us take to reduce CO2 will be nullified.

    And producing less CO2 won't even likely do anything to stop "climate change". But it will harm our economies while making quick fortunes here and there for a few "green" hucksters.

    The planet was here long before we were here, and will be here long after we're gone. And earth has been experiencing all sorts of "climate change" during this time.
     
  10. crimsonghost747

    crimsonghost747 Senior Investor

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    Well that is what they want you to believe here in the west. In reality... nah. You can't understand the pollution in 3rd world countries before you see it... you just can't. And it's absolutely ridiculous. I do applaud the western countries from trying to fight climate change but the whole world needs to do it together, if not then we are just putting ourselves in a crappy situation economically while having very little effect on the climate.
     

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