Some people, like one-time nemesis of this blog Steve Fielding, say that accepting climate change as a fact, and acting on it, will result in a loss of jobs and economic growth. Those people are closed-minded, short-sighted dinosaurs with no imagination, and also they're ugly.
Fact is, the dinosaurs are vastly outnumbered (not counting birds, which are apparently dinosaurs), the rest of the world IS going to accept climate change as fact, and this is going to be an enormous OPPORTUNITY for jobs and growth.
For example, I just read this in the New York Times: China’s Incinerators Loom as a Global Hazard. Apparently, "As China runs out of landfill space, it is racing to build incinerators, a growing source of toxic emissions"...and fun, if you're a five-year old living in Melbourne suburbs in the seventies. Although I don't recall burning mercury and dioxin.
But let's not get into "who burnt what first".
The point is, it seems to me that there's a market in China for coming up with ways to deal with their waste - y'know, stuff like recycling, reusing, and composting it. Rather than setting fire to it.
Whoever gets on that first is gonna GET PAID.
Odds are, it won't be Steve Fielding.
And speaking of odds: Go Saints.
Fact is, the dinosaurs are vastly outnumbered (not counting birds, which are apparently dinosaurs), the rest of the world IS going to accept climate change as fact, and this is going to be an enormous OPPORTUNITY for jobs and growth.
For example, I just read this in the New York Times: China’s Incinerators Loom as a Global Hazard. Apparently, "As China runs out of landfill space, it is racing to build incinerators, a growing source of toxic emissions"...and fun, if you're a five-year old living in Melbourne suburbs in the seventies. Although I don't recall burning mercury and dioxin.
But let's not get into "who burnt what first".
The point is, it seems to me that there's a market in China for coming up with ways to deal with their waste - y'know, stuff like recycling, reusing, and composting it. Rather than setting fire to it.
Whoever gets on that first is gonna GET PAID.
Odds are, it won't be Steve Fielding.
And speaking of odds: Go Saints.
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