More uncomfortable facts

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This year, Toyota’s hybrid models are selling well in the United States. This is somewhat related to a documentary film called "An Inconvenient Truth" (it can only be said that it is not a documentary), at the end of this extremely inflammatory film. , Gives suggestions such as If you can, buy a hybrid (mixed fuel) car. There is an episode of South Park that satirizes this. The Karl family believes that the people in Southpark are not very advanced, and they moved to California without driving a hybrid vehicle. California is considered to be an area in the United States that accepts new ideas relatively quickly, and there are all kinds of open minds. People who are willing to flaunt open-mindedness. It used to be a paradise for hippies, so the eagle wants to open the hotel in California. The Californians in southpark are very hit by the ball. In order to slow down global warming, they fart and immediately bury their heads in the crotch and suck them up. The main component of fart is methane, which produces 1000 times the greenhouse effect of the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide, and the harm is considerable. Therefore, it is recommended that students who love environmental protection carry a plastic bag, seal and collect the fart and burn it.

In addition to California, those two live treasures have not forgotten to satirize Vice President Al Gore. There is an episode about Al Gore coming to a children’s school to give a lecture. He said that a monster called "manbearpig" is about to attack the earth. The so-called manbearpig is a kind of A monster that looks like a person, not like a bear, not like a bear, but like a pig, not a pig. Everyone doesn’t throw him away. He is just a population. He asks Stan to help him eliminate the monster. Stan doesn’t believe in the so-called manbearpig, but he thinks Gore has no friends. , Very lonely and pitiful, so he agreed, but Gore almost killed the children.

The jokes in South Park are always overdone but hit the sore spot. There is a passage in "Uncomfortable Facts" where Bush said Gore: "This guy is crazy. He wants to turn all Americans into owl protectors!". This may appear in the film to show Al Gore’s dilemma and persistence, but I agree more with Bush’s point of view. After all, there are more uncomfortable facts than global warming. Australia is the hardest hit by climate warming. If the greenhouse effect continues to intensify, the northern region will be less suitable for human survival, infectious diseases such as malaria will rise, and it will face nationwide droughts and more frequent forest fires. In fact, the water in Queensland in the southwest is no longer enough, crop production is reduced and residents use water for limited periods of time. The state government wants to divert water from New South Wales, but the state opposes it. In this case, Australia still refuses to join the "Kyoto Protocol." If this is attributed to the fact that emission reduction violates the interests of vested interests, then this class includes not only oligarchs, but also all the people. A warmer climate will kill people, and more people will die if you don’t burn oil. Searching for the relationship between GDP and oil will give you the answer. In a society where the division of labor is meticulous, the economic depression caused by the increase in energy prices is reflected in individuals, and a large number of people above the subsistence line will slip offline. This consequence More serious than global warming. In addition, the carbon cycle has a delayed effect, which means that even if human economic activities are completely stopped, the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will continue to rise for a long time. Severe climate change is almost inevitable. A more rational measure is to establish Adapt to the infrastructure that guarantees survival in the deteriorating climatic environment. Furthermore, global warming is not harmful to all regions. The value of the tundra in the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic continent will show up. Russia, Canada, and Denmark are all relatively large beneficiaries. I have seen an impact on China. The weather report is basically positioned as a mixed profit and loss.

I think it’s the right thing to slow down global warming in an appropriate way, and which is appropriate and which is not. This requires corresponding professional knowledge to judge, but more importantly, we must have the right attitude and be willing to use a rational attitude. Analyze, don't use environmental protection as a political show, don't use environmental protection as a fashion show, environmental protection, like other things, should not be overcorrected.

Forgive me, I'm talking stubbornly, this topic reminds me of Sudan's problem. Yesterday, everyone was still talking while eating skewers. Recently, the intranet was noisy. Sudan belongs to a North African country. In the south of Egypt, it is influenced by Arabs. The ethnic groups can be divided into Muslims and non-Muslims. I went in to invest in and repaired a lot of infrastructure. The Chinese soldiers supported the northern Muslim forces, provided them with weapons, and so on. Then these camel riders were holding weapons as if they wanted to wipe out the non-Muslims. One more person, one more pair of hands, one more factor of instability, the Chinese soldiers opened one eye and closed one eye. In the international arena After a lot of criticism, the United Nations said that Sudan is the country most likely to have genocide. The Sudanese people are living very hard. We must admit that the Chinese fighters have an inseparable relationship with them. But will the local people of Sudan be happy if China withdraws from it? The United States has been trying to foster confrontational forces in southern Sudan. What is certain is that China’s withdrawal of this vacancy will be filled by the United States, and the Sudanese people still cannot get happiness (refer to the African country Nigeria controlled by American oil companies). The fundamental reason for happiness lies in the fact that there is Africa, and there is oil there. However, oil is still an increasingly scarce energy source that cannot be replaced at a reasonable price. It seems that the lives of the Sudanese people cannot be changed right away, at least not through China's withdrawal. But CNPC can provide us with 10% of the oil supply by staying there, which can improve our quality of life and reduce the number of unemployed people. So some.

This fact is indeed uncomfortable, and what is even more uncomfortable is that every time we consume and produce, we are willing to accept and create these uncomfortable facts.

so, get used to it, welcome to 21st century.

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An Inconvenient Truth quotes

  • Al Gore: It's important to rescue the frog.

  • Al Gore: [quoting Mark Twain] "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."