My municipality halved garbage collection and introduced recycling to be eco friendly. 5-10 years later it has been revealed that the "recycling" involved trucking and ocean shipping to a Chinese landfill, and the only reason anyone said anything about it was because the Chinese government put a stop to importing garbage so now they are looking to India or other countries dumb enough to take it under the guise of recycling.
There is a pattern of scamming people tied up with global warming and eco friendly bullshit, so much so that I believe that's the entire point. Take David Susuki's lifestyle now for example. https://torontosun.com/2013/10/11/the-two-suzukis-theres-saint-suzuki-the-one-you-see-on-cbc-and-secret-suzuki-the-capitalist-millionaire/wcm/41e5eca5-3efa-4a1f-91c7-e4445e4dc367 He was the poster boy for the enviro-tards.
From my day-to-day interactions with eco-nuts, I find I appreciate and protect nature far more than they do, and I'm not even getting a slice of the sweet eco-taxes to fund lunatic carbon capture schemes or to go jetting off to the conferences to discuss the issues and resolve to put more taxes in force. Funny how that works.
Yes, of course eco-related scams are a thing. If you really want to follow the money, there is a hell of a lot more profit involved for much larger corporations, by convincing people that anthropogenic global warming is not happening.
That's possible.
Assuming it is happening (and that's a big assumption), rather than trying to get people to live lifestyles akin to monkeys in Siberia, why don't you promote nuclear energy and a reduction in regulation making it economically competitive with coal?
Why would I favor nuclear in particular? Solar and wind are already economically competitive. If greenhouse pollution was appropriately discouraged, the market could probably be left to sort out the best way to supply electricity, and that would likely include some nuclear. Personally, I'd rather be self-sufficient through small scale renewable electricity production.
Anthropogenic global warming is assuming the least. The world's scientists have had over three decades to disprove the standard theory and become fantastically famous doing it - I think it's here to stay.
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