I've been reading about the contradictory opinions on the effect of global warming. I'm thinking of pundit scientists popular with the B (movie) administration and oil companies that talk about the advantages of losing the polar ice cap regions. For example, increase in arable land for cultivation and access to oil reserves.
Never mind that we lose the polar bears and countless other species and native peoples who depend on the habitat to survive. Never mind the health problems people throughout the world endure because of emissions and other chemical toxins and gases that we live around - mainly from petroleum derivatives. Never mind that we are destroying one of the richest places (Brazilian rainforest) for medicinal antidotes to our current epidemic crises.
Rhetorically I wonder: why should they care about greenhouse gases if the end result has its advantages, even if philosophically we are against them? In terms of geologic time, the earth, climate, and universe have been going through cataclysmic events since forever.
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