How To Take Something Easy: Climate, And Confuse Everyone

We don’t have to complicate it to clarify some very key points

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Look at the trash pile above. Multiply it by billions of tons.

To make these products, often single-use and just tossed, burns a lot of carbon.

Here is the extremely easy part: burning too much stuff is bad.

When nature burns stuff, lightning strikes, plant propagation fires, and so on, that is not the same as when human beings burn stuff they extract from Earth. It begins to get complicated, but stick with three simple points to try to wrap your head around the simple truth.

Burning stuff creates toxins, GHG, — greenhouse gases.

Burning stuff traps in heat (same GHG).

Using energy burns stuff.

We know that all of Earth and her systems are complex. We know that some greenhouse gases are naturally occurring, but our heating of Earth is exposing them faster. Deforestation, and removal of plant life for cattle, or housing, or for industry, will create more heat. Extracting materials for industry and ensuring convenient delivery…