It seems a lot of CTs don’t believe in climate change. I can’t think why they’d see it as a CT, though.
For argument’s sake let’s say climate change doesn’t exist, why would cutting carbon emissions be a bad thing? What would governments have to gain from it?
I just finished an Environment Management qualification and our tutor started out in the 1980s by doing Environmental Health degree and moving from being an enforcement officer to working as a consultant and finally a tutor and he said when he first started teaching 15 years ago he’d ask people if they believed in climate change and he said it was generally like 50/50 60/40 for believing. He said to us ‘I’m not even going to ask you, because it is happening and if you can’t see that then honestly just leave my course now’
It’s actually such simple science when you look at it, yes the world has gone through very cyclical climate patterns for millennium however it’s only since the Industrial Age that we’ve really started to plough through our carbon reserves at a rate the earth could never expect. All carbon that exists has always existed…so you plant a tree and that takes 2-5 years to reach maturity and if you cut that tree down and burn it for fuel the energy it produces is the carbon it absorbed from our atmosphere. So you’re just putting back into the air what was there 5 years ago. Not a big deal.
Fossils fuels are hundred of millions of years old, it’s rotted, decaying prehistoric material that last saw earth hundreds of millions of years ago. We burn that and release it into our atmosphere now we cause a massive in balance. One that would never have existed in nature. Humans have already and will continue to destroy this world, one day we will be seen (if there would be anyone around to see) as less of an event than the dinosaurs were and that makes me feel quite ill.