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Opinion: We need climate action, not space tourism
Deutsche Welle ^ | 07.20.2021 | Sonya Angelica Diehn

Posted on 07/20/2021 9:51:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai

I care about the future; therefore, I care about the climate. I belong to the vast majority of global citizens who, as poll after poll show, are concerned about the direction the planet is heading and understand the urgency and existential nature of the impending climate emergency. The recent catastropic flooding in central Europe and extreme high temperatures in North America are just a few symptoms of this.

So in my family, we do something about it. We scrimp and save on our carbon budget: we walk or ride bikes instead of driving our car; we eat dramatically less meat than the average family in industrialized countries; we skip that trans-Atlantic trip even if we really want it; we make sure we’re not wasting food and we also compost our scraps.

And then some filthy rich ***hole blasts into space, just for fun.

That’s incredibly selfish, isn’t it?

And it really devaluates our efforts to protect the climate — both morally and materially. […]

Let’s take Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flight on July 11. For a suborbital journey of about 100 miles (160 kilometers), the company said the carbon dioxide emissions released were roughly equal to a round-trip trans-Atlantic passenger jet flight. Based on publicly available information, a trip from London to New York City releases about 1.24 metric tons of CO2. To put it another way, that 1½-hour jaunt into space was equivalent to about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) of driving an average passenger car. …

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Hobbies; UFO's; Weather
KEYWORDS: agw; agwhoax; agwscam; bezos; branson; climatechange; climatechangehoax; climatecretins; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globullwarming; hoax; musk; scam; scientism; spacetourism
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To: Olog-hai

I’m guessing the author has long ignored the countless hypocritical leftist celebrities and govt officials who fly privately when they could fly commercial, fly at all when they could drive, drive SUVs when the could drive Priuses, drive at all when they could walk, and live in mansions when they could live far more humbly and energy efficiently.


21 posted on 07/20/2021 10:10:15 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Olog-hai

Send her back to the 40’s so she can protest at Peenemünde.


22 posted on 07/20/2021 10:11:16 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Olog-hai

Lol! Another “spend the money on Earth” moocher. A worthless taker. If you were looking for a useless bread gobbler any left-wing scribbler would fully qualify.


23 posted on 07/20/2021 10:11:47 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: sport

Yeah, all they do is just come out with their platitudes about carbon footprint nonsense as they use their private jets to go to climate change conferences.


24 posted on 07/20/2021 10:12:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: Army Air Corps

How about a bunch of liberal corks?


25 posted on 07/20/2021 10:12:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: SecondAmendment

26 posted on 07/20/2021 10:14:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh but those filthy rich guys have a plan for climate change. Humanism and Mars. Meld human and machine together so that they can live on Mars. If your body breaks down fully, just upload your conscious to a robot.


27 posted on 07/20/2021 10:20:01 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Pollard

transhumanism is what I meant


28 posted on 07/20/2021 10:20:41 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Olog-hai

“concerned about the direction the planet” does NOT equal turn everything over to German government bureaucrats and Left wing Socialist tyrants.


29 posted on 07/20/2021 10:27:50 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Clutch Martin

“What is needed is to conquer global hunger”

If you nourish someone only physically and not ethically you end up with a monster.


30 posted on 07/20/2021 10:31:10 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Olog-hai

We don’t have many Earth-loving folks where I live.

I see one or two amigos on bicycles, a few folks on the bus, and the rest driving motorized vehicles, half of which are huge.

thermostat - off
bicycle tires - full


31 posted on 07/20/2021 10:31:43 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Olog-hai

If stopping so called Climate Change consists of reducing Co2 Emissions, the first step in the process is Building hundreds of Nuclear Power Plants.

You cannot produce enough non Co2 emitting Energy sources any other way. Hydro Electricity, Solar Panels and Windmills all have limitations.

I have read about producing energy using Ocean Currents, but I’m sure it would be a daunting project.

The only other way to reduce Humanity’s impact on the Climate is to reduce the size of Humanity, which would be the natural progression should the Leftists get their way.


32 posted on 07/20/2021 10:40:56 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: SkyDancer

Kinda like sacrifices to volcano gods.


33 posted on 07/20/2021 10:46:23 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Olog-hai
And it really devaluates our efforts to protect the climate — both morally and materially.

Maybe most "global citizens" agree with the writer.

The vast majority of people on earth do not, because it is a con game calling itself "science".

34 posted on 07/20/2021 10:46:56 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Vaquero
The writer:


35 posted on 07/20/2021 10:50:27 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

The only other way to reduce Humanity’s impact on the Climate is to reduce the size of Humanity, which would be the natural progression should the Leftists get their way.......Why else the Cov8d Shots (jabs)?


36 posted on 07/20/2021 10:52:21 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Stupid man Bad.)
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To: Olog-hai

A good demonstration of how the power elites will continue to do as they want. When we peons are sweltering or shivering in our darkened homes, are restricted from using our cars and face long lines at the grocery store for basic food all because of climate change restrictions, the elites will still have their SUVs, live in lavish homes and dine on the best food… you see some animals are more equal than others.


37 posted on 07/20/2021 11:09:45 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Olog-hai

HAHAHA. I personally don’t really care if Bezos spends his own money to go to space. He is employing hundreds, if not thousands of people, for his hobbies. But this also reminds me of the same type of idiots complaining about the space program because it didn’t benefit blacks at the time. A very non PC book to enjoy...
“Whitey On The Moon. Race, Politics, and the Death of the US Space Program. 1968 - 1972” - Paul Kersey


38 posted on 07/20/2021 11:16:40 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Olog-hai

“A rat done bit my sister Nell.....”


39 posted on 07/20/2021 11:17:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: The Great RJ

The elites don’t care about making us swelter or freeze. They want 7 billion of us-not-them dead. They aren’t even hiding their genocidal Agenda (21, 30, 50) anymore. They are telling us they are going to kill us off - 95% of the population by 2030 according to their own documents. I don’t know why people aren’t hearing what they are saying.


40 posted on 07/20/2021 11:17:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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