04-29-2020, 11:18 PM
(04-29-2020, 11:11 PM)Navaratna Wrote: I remember reading about how the number of cars on the roads in crowded cities elevated the temperatures of urban environments by a degree or two. All those engines, trucks, think of it. It's not only the fumes trapping heat, it's the diesel engines/planes/tanker running.
So maybe we got a little bit cooler..
but then again, once the planet explodes in warfare and factories as a result of oil crashing and Arab Spring 2.0 emerges, along with a Latin Spring I think we'll witness something like this happening again [see link]. Just imagine the amount of pollution a high grade military tank speeding down a freeway makes, the fighter jet fuel, the waste generated in weapons factories. it all makes me roll my eyes at people trying to sell environmentally friendly laundry detergent. Your car means nothing compared to a single cargo ship which out-pollutes many many many thousands of cars on the road.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/politics/...index.html
The amount of fumes released in to the atmosphere from the fires and detonation of explosives ordinance along with chemical weapons in a place like Syria makes an individual's carbon footprint a mere toothpick in a landfill compared to the trash of warfare. It'd be great to see people becoming anti-war activists, but the truth is it'd only be a matter of time until a rifle is cocked and aimed at their heads. "How about..make me stop?" That is if anyone on T.V. would even take a moment to stop mocking those people.
The dichotomy between the immediately personal and the impersonally cosmic is something that tugs away at one's inner being at all times I think. May be it explains the inertia in getting involved for social good among the greater critical mass of the human population....