"Golly, is there ANYTHING that doesn't contribute to climate change?"
Posted on 01/09/2024 5:41:38 AM PST by MtnClimber
The climate-change killjoys have gone to great lengths in recent years linking practically anything and everything as a contributor to climate change. Gas stoves? Check. Dishwashers? Check. Eating meat? Check. Sporting events? Check. Breathing? Check, too.
Given this history, I must say I was not all that surprised when I read a recent article in the Washington Post claiming, “Indoor houseplants come with a cost to the planet.”
According to article’s author, “greening indoor spaces can also come at an environmental cost. The trucks that transport plants spew carbon emissions, plastic pots and synthetic fertilizers are made from petroleum and the harvesting of soil components like peat can tear up slow-forming habitats.”
Virtually everything we buy and consume in the modern age is transported via truck, train, and/or cargo ship. For instance, most of the technological devices Americans buy in spades these days are transported across the entire world, from Asia to the United States. The same is true for the vast majority of foodstuffs, trinkets, and creature comforts that we use on a daily basis.
Declaring that we should refrain from purchasing these products simply because they must be transported across vast distances via a train, truck, or cargo ship which use fossil fuels, is absurd. If we were to implement this “planet-saving strategy” throughout our lifestyles by avoiding the purchase of products that need to shipped, the worldwide economy would grind to a halt, life would be miserable, and human flourishing would plummet.
Instead of purchasing a plant from a greenhouse or nursery, the author suggests, “looking for local plant swaps or garden clubs in your area, which are often organized online or on social media sites. Other gardeners are often happy to give you cuttings of their own plants, which you can propagate...
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I would like to push the concept that leftists cause climate change. Look at the sidewalks in San Francisco.
According to article’s author, “greening indoor spaces can also come at an environmental cost. The trucks that transport plants spew carbon emissions, plastic pots and synthetic fertilizers are made from petroleum and the harvesting of soil components like peat can tear up slow-forming habitats.”
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What if you grow your own plants, from seeds or cuttings?
What if you don’t use plastic pots?
Some place would probably pass a law banning houseplants because of idiots like this.
However, they wouldn’t ban pot plants, because they are hypocrites.
I eat bugs.
I killed my gardenia.
I’m doing everything I can to change the weather on this planet.
Especially anything that might be edible.
Nothing humans do contributes significantly to climate change. Climate change is the result of natural forces of Sun, Earth and their interaction over hundreds of thousands of years. We are just damned lucky to be in an era of warming (if we still are) because if things were growing colder each day there would be murderous chaos in competition for declining food resources.
The left isn’t happy unless they’re ruining everyone else’s life and spoiling their fun, robbing others of anything that gives them enjoyment.
The way to eliminate the Climate Change fiasco is to eliminate all those who promote Climate Change.
Chicken Little and all his feckless followers must just be destroyed
“If we were to implement this “planet-saving strategy” throughout our lifestyles by avoiding the purchase of products that need to shipped, the worldwide economy would grind to a halt, life would be miserable, and human flourishing would plummet.”
But that the goal; isn’t it?
China is not the model. North Korea is.
Mankind always flourished and made progress during warm periods, known as climate optimums.
Longer growing seasons mean more food and lower heating costs mean more expendable income for luxuries.
The climate is natural built in and always changes over hundreds of thousands or millions of years ,NOT MONTHS ,D’oh
S/E/X???
They talk like there’s only 1 climate not 17 of them ,LOL
The trucks that bring food to feed these insane leftists cause pollution. They should be stopped. Also, every time one of them breathes, he expels CO2, and so must be made to stop that evil polluting action.
When my wife buys a house plant it comes with a Death Certificate.
“When my wife buys a house plant it comes with a Death Certificate.”
Same here, So we don’t have any. I would buy her some almost real looking plastic ones but I am afraid she might kill those too when she takes them out on the porch to hose them off. lol
Weather = days/weeks/months/years.
Climate Change = hundreds/thousands/millions of years.
Those eco-wacko morons use the words, but they don’t know what they mean.
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