Ph, I would honestly like for you to educate me on how Global Warming has impacted my life directly. It has now been 11 years since Gore released his movie that warned of a 10 year tipping point. Still waiting. Also, Big Al bought an oceanfront beach house. I guess he isn't too concerned about rising oceans. Can you provide a bullet list? I would love to know.
I am also interested in understanding how your lifestyle differs from mine - to compare a true believer to a denier. What is it that I am missing?
Here are some basic questions to get started. I am going to skip 'do you recycle' because I think every city does at this point.
1. Do you use Amazon?
2. What about Hello Fresh / Blue Apron?
3. Do you buy bottled water?
4. Do you use cloth or disposable diapers for your kids?
5. Gas or electric car?
6. Reusable or disposable grocery bags?
I would also like to invite the other snarky folks on this thread to participate:
warak
TownieDeac
Shooschmoo
birdman
rjkarl
My answers:
1. I love it! Use it for all kinds of things and have dash buttons in the house for items such as toilet paper and laundry detergent.
2. Meals show up every week. Tired of all of the chopping and giving Hello Fresh a try on 3/29.
3. Just too convenient not to buy it. $4 for a case at sames. Use it for the little guys bottle and for water on the go.
4. Would never consider cloth. Get that shit out of my house. Literally.
5. 3 gas vehicles. Very interested in a Tesla Model 3 though.
6. Austin has a bag ban and I have reusable ones in my trunk that I always forget and spend $3.30 on bags every time.
I guess i have gotten snarky of late...apologies.
I would be happy to participate:
1. Yes, not really often but as needed.
2. No. I have five garden boxes in my yard and grow a lot of my own food and enjoy cooking. We have chickens for eggs also.
3. Not often, but have them occasionally if camping or the like (used to use iodine tabs). We also use three rainwater collection systems for our garden.
4. I have no kids, but use all cloth napkins and cloth dog towels.
5. Prius (but i do have my old '78 ford i like to work on and use for hauling mulch and soil).
6. Reusable grocery bags.
I wish I could give you the smoking gun as it relates to Global Warming. I don't have the data and I don't know where to find it that Rep would #1 believe (everything if fake, besides Fox, which is the dumbest thing I have every heard) or #2 change your mind. I can show you Grants / Papers / Stats / Polar tips melting / oceans rising but that has been done before. Prob a good indicator is the ocean acidification levels. My understanding this is a direct link to CO2 and effects the Ph level of the water...could kill life in the ocean. Personally I think the view of this administration on the environment is shameful. Without the EPA or CWA, Flint would have been left helpless. Coal ash has proved to kill off wildlife in rivers and streams. Now nobody is regulating companies from dumping crap wherever and whenever they want...Companies are not concerned with people, only dollars.
Quick flash back as i was typing...remember how the acid rain effected the top of Mount Mitchell. I use hike there as a boy scout and did that again after college...quite a difference.
RE: Trump - I might be one of the only true fiscal conservatives on this board, I don't spend money and I don't like to take chances with my money. Trump make my blood boil with his unneeded financial expenditures and self promotion or benefit. Every dollar spent in NYC and FL goes right back into the Trump pocket. He doesn't need to play golf 11 times in 8 weeks or Melania doesn't need to stay in NY, it is Trump being the Capitalist. Trump is the epitome of a Capitalist, there is nothing wrong with that as an American, but the President of the United States should not be swindling the American people to line his pockets.