We don’t want to choose a political side. Discussions about how we are ruining oceans, destroying animal populations, and biodiversity truly ought to be outside the realm of political hot buttons. The only way politics should be involved is in the methods by which government is necessary to place controls upon unscrupulous organizations to whom the environment and affected-peoples are merely annoyances and hindrances to the accumulation of more wealth.
It would be grand if these organizations were naturally aligned with doing good in the world, and cleaning up after themselves – things we teach any child in kindergarten and church – but its clear this is not going to happen.
Perhaps back in the 60’s when this idea that humans could possibly outgrow the earths resources first became “of note”, and even the 60-‘s through to mid 90s, we could play that “its a political issue” game.
If you are still saying there isn’t a problem, then you could head over to our documentaries section and get a bit more educated on the topic.
If you are here to “debunk” and “debase” peer reviewed, well-credentialed scientific information, then go ahead and leave this site, you won’t find it useful.
At this point, the foundational basis for boiledfrog.org is that we can all see with our own eyes, the floods, hurricanes, droughts and fires that are worsening year over year. We can debate causality. We can debate solutions.
Let us please stop “debating” that which is clearly evident. And by all means – get out the vote – participation in our democracy is also critical, it has also become evident that it is unfortunately not enough. Anybody see a carbon tax around that is stopping Business-As-Usual? This is 50 years on from the first big rumblings that there’s a problem. Democracy is FAILING us in this regard. This can no longer be only a political concern.
There’s a problem needs solving. Let’s be adults. Let’s be global citizens. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work.
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Wait, what are the right solutions? Which have merit? Which are truly viable vs simply being media-endorsed? Which could actually be sustainable vs short-sighted rotten ideas (like ripping up forests to create “biomass” for burning).
This inventing-out-way out of the climate crisis is a nice idea. It may even work eventually. We aren’t there yet. Everyone doing that should keep on doing it.
And until then, let us put a stop to the offenders, instead of pretending that some taxation and future inventions are the only tools we have.