Supreme Court and Legislators Fiddle While Rome Burns
I don't think there is a state in the Middlewest that is doing much of anything about this. To eliminate nitrogen fertilizer would cause a huge upset in the prices of food. Farming practices and economics would experience a dramatic change. Enforcement would require a small army of new government employees. Neither party dares do anything about it so we just continue to a future doomsday.
Every time I bring up something like this commenters pile on with, "There have been warnings before and nothing bad happened." Sure, so that means nothing bad will happen as the Gulf fills with dead water?
But, legislators and courts are busy. They are busy mucking around with religion. They spend their time passing abortion bills and with bills telling children which rest rooms they have to use. Present them with something important and they ignore it.
The growth of the dead water area in the gulf begins to answer the question: Could humans so pollute the earth that it will not be able to raise enough food or provide enough water for sustainability? It would take a long time, but certainly it seems possible. If pollution can take a few miles of the Gulf of Mexico each year then with enough time it could start on the oceans.
Of course, growing enough food depends on how many people need to be fed as well as what diet they can tolerate. For whatever reason food allergies have become more common. Right wing Christians scoff at population numbers. From their point of view, apparently, there is no possibility the earth now has too many people. Further, they believe, it would be impossible for there ever to be too many humans on earth.
If there are nine billion then there could be eighteen billion and it would be fine.
Too bad all you liberals have no credibility.
ReplyDeleteWe've lived through the end if the world vis a vis the Population Bomb 💣 scientific prophecy of Stanford professor Paul R. Ehrlich.
We're living through the doomsday certainty of Cong. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and her climate change pseudoscience she picked up tending bar and getting an Economics degree (oh, the irony) from BU. I think we have 10-11 years left of life on earth.
There are countless crackpot liberals with doomsday covid theories based on lack of vaccination, lack of face masking, lack of social distancing and lack of testing that there isn't enough airtime on the combo of CNN, MSNBC, and NPR to keep any of them happy. I have found there are two miraculous covid practices which aren't superspreaders; (1) caravans of tens of thousands of potential illegal immigrants marching to qns through our wuthering border, and (2) people who riot, loot, murder and congregate in US Metro areas. The left has absolved them of problematic covid behavior. I'm sure the feel they are scientifically justified.
Here is an oxymoron: left-wing science.
Matt-- A repeat of Nero's fiddling while Rome burns. A later version is Madd Magazine, "What, me worry?" We can be thankful there are a few "alarmists" that made seat belts mandatory, developed vaccines, have safety standards in cars and buildings and licenses for health care. Conservative "freedom" advocates fought seat belts for years. Eventually enough were killed in car wrecks so the votes were there to require them. That's happening with vaccinations.
DeleteAnd you are none of those.
DeleteYou are your heros; Ehrlich, AOC, etc.
Western civilization was developed primarily through the Catholic Church; science, art, philosophy, government, etc
Matt -- Western civilization was developed primarily through the Catholic Church, science ....
DeleteAnd the non Western civilizations are barbaric chaos?? No schools or hospitals where there was no Catholic Church?? As the saying goes, "A sucker is born every minute." Keep sending your dollars to the Catholic Church. They have hoodwinked you and you will never know it.
Western civilization was developed primarily through the Catholic Church? Wow.
DeleteA slight correction is in order here:
Western civilization was developed primarily through opposition to the Catholic Church.
There. That's better.
Socrates, Plato, W. C. Fields, ... This blog is so intellectual.
ReplyDeleteYou really give atheism a bad name. Some atheists can argue with some credibility.
When you got sick in Fargo, where did you go? St. Luke's, St. John's, or St. Ansgar's hospital? Or did you boycott medical care due to the sole affiliation with Christianity?
Matt ---- So, you'd rather not answer how it is countries without Christianity have hospitals. I understand.
ReplyDeleteas to universities and hospitals. yes, we know that most countries now have relatively modern schools, universities, hospitals and all the rest. mostly, tho' they got them from Europe, often under Christian auspices. I am not aware of any system of hospitals in, say, China, India or other parts of Asia prior to the days of western European "imperialism". perhaps I am wrong: if I am I'm sure that Jon would enlighten me. as to universities, we know that the ancients had what we today call universities. the Lyceum and the Academy immediately come to mind. yet, the university in the modern sense blossomed during the Middle Ages: Paris, Oxford, etc.
ReplyDeletetsm--So you have no knowledge of the Jewish doctor and philosopher Maimonides. Or, the long history of medicine in India. Figures.
ReplyDeletetsm The Byzantine Empire had hospitals, one recorded in 805 in Baghdad. By the 15th century they were all over. Records from Cordoba, Spain tells of 50 hospitals. Hospitals are about economics not religion. It's cheaper to move all the patients to one spot than have doctors running around to homes. To imply there would be no hospitals without Christianity is laughable.
Deleteno knowledge of Maimonides? come now. I know of him. I also know about Hippocrates, Galen and, on the modern scene, such figures as Harvey, Pasteur, Jenner, etc. I also know a fair amount regarding the four humours paradigm. as to the record of medicine in India, I come up a little short. perhaps you could enlighten me. after all, a fellow can't know everything.
DeleteThe Byzantine Empire had hospitals! did you know that the Byzantines were Christian? so no surprise there. Cordoba had hospitals? was that during the Christian reconquest or was that during the Muslim period? as far as I know Baghdad was never part of the BE. anyway I don't find it shocking to know that Muslims had hospitals. of course, hospitals were "all over" by the 1400s. not surprising after several centuries of Christian civilization. as to economic influences. I am sure that economics was a factor (for all the reasons that you cite). bur remember that for a hammer every problem is a nail. and for an economist every problem is an economic problem. the fact that Christians were enjoined to care for the sick and the unfortunate doesn't enter into your mental world. but enuf. bottom line your comments, insofar as I am concerned, don't touch on my comments. good try tho'