Do Democrats think climate change is a worthy cause to spend our children and their children’s money on?

Well, Dean, I’m not a Democrat but I’m going to ask you 3 very simple questions:

Have you ever heard that an ounce of prevention is cheaper than a pound of cure?

Have you realized it entered your head, at all, if the planet cannot sustain life there will be no descendants?

Is it better WE clean up our mess or leave it to THEM to clean up our mess?

I get it, you don’t understand what climate change is, or how it will affect the planet, or the future, so I’m going to explain it in layman’s terms for you, and even use some pictures.

This is what happened to places all around the world that locked down just during the early stages of the pandemic in a set of before/after pictures, taken at the exact same places:

The above and below shot are after and before, not before after for some reason.

Do you see how much cleaner the air is? That’s because there were MUCH FEWER cars, trucks, and companies spewing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc into the air we breathe. It also shows the damage WE are doing to our world.

Now, let’s see some climate change pictures.

So, what happens as the Earth’s temperature heats up permanently?

Glaciers melt, this causes water levels in the oceans and various lakes to increase. This MIGHT seem like a good thing, until you realize that if enough melt, countries and US States will be underwater, shrinking the available land humans and animals can inhabit, AND pushing predators like bears, cougars, bobcats, wolves, etc into human areas leading to human deaths, especially children.

Lands that WERE fertile face drought conditions leading to the reduction of farm land, grazing land for food animals, and therefore food becomes scarcer and more expensive, too expensive for many to afford, leading to hunger and starvation deaths, including for children.

Increasing heat also alters the Jet Stream and other weather all over the Earth, increasing heat waves, wildfires, and so forth, increasing the amount of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and ash in the air, all of which chokes out the sun which will eventually create a nuclear winter type effect. Increasing heat also causes the death of vegetation (grasses, bushes, trees) which filter carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and methane out of the air, replacing it with oxygen, you know that stuff we and every other species on Earth BREATHES, which means mass death.

You;’ll notice I’m not calling you names, or whatever. That’s because doing so just puts you on the defensive and closes your mind. It’s foolish, and gets us nowhere.

Climate change isn’t a hoax, it’s not fake, it’s very real, it’s happening now, not decades in the future. It’s BEEN happening since the 19th century when the Industrial Age began, and has increased exponentially due to the increase in the human population since the Industrial Age began.

The human population of Earth stayed low until the Industrial Age began. You can see that very clearly and plainly. The population between 1700 and 1900 nearly tripled. Since 1900, the human population rose by over 400%. This causes much more strain on the Earth’s resources, which are finite. No more oil, coal, natural gas, land, air, is being made But, it’s also increased the waste we create. You know, garbage, toilet paper, plastic (which takes thousands of years to decompose), glass, cardboard boxes, rusting metal, etc. What do we do with all that garbage? We bury it in the ground. As stuff decomposes and breaks down, it creates toxic sludge. That toxic sludge seeps into our water and our land, and therefore into the water we drink and the food we put in ourselves, both from the plants AND the animals we eat (especially since the animals we eat also eat the plants).

But, as the human population of Earth has increased, so has the population of the animals we eat. We’ve needed more chickens, cows, sheep, etc to feed us. Well, both humans and all other animals expel methane which is mostly carbon as well, into our atmosphere, as we pass gas (fart), poop, and decompose. That makes the problem worse, and makes it happen faster.

Think of it as adding wood and gasoline to a bonfire. It gets bigger, quicker, and consumes oxygen faster, so it gets hotter. The more we add, the bigger the fire, flames, smoke, ash, etc. The hotter the fire, the quicker hot dogs cook, right? Well, when it comes to climate change, Earth is a hot dog. If you cook your hot dog for too long, it burns and becomes inedible, right? Well, if Earth cooks, it cannot sustain life either. If Earth can’t support life anymore, everything on Earth dies.

So, how do we stop burning the hot dog (Earth) and make sure it can still sustain life (after all, that’s the point of eating something, right, we eat to sustain our lives?)

We need to stop cooking the hot dog! Simple, mind-blowing concept, right?

So, how do we stop cooking the hot dog? Well, we have to lessen the temperature of the fire, stop adding fuel and wood to the fire, or have to move the hot dog away from the fire.

Well, we can’t move the orbit of the Earth, so we can’t take this particular hot dog from the fire.

So we HAVE to reduce the heat, and stop adding fuel and wood to the fire.

We do that by changing over to cleaner energy to power our homes, our cars, trucks, trains, boats, airplanes, barges, buildings, businesses, etc. The more we convert over, and the quicker we do it, the temperatures cooking our hot dog (Earth) stop going up, and will eventually go down. That reduces the heat.

We also do that by cleaning up as much of the stuff we’ve done to add fuel and wood to the fire as possible. In the hot dog example, that means pulling away some of the wood, and putting it out.

So, we need to spend money to invent technologies that can do both of those things, simultaneously, and as quickly as possible. If we don’t, Earth, and everything on it dies. Not in 200 years, not in 100 years, but in less than 50 years, according to experts. And before you bring up the climate change scientists screaming about it for the last 30 years, let me remind you of the following:

They were right.

Have you noticed the increase in natural disasters by chance?

The increase in the number of hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, sinkholes, etc? I have. Have you noticed the increase in numbers of cancer? I have.

You remember how they screamed about the hole in ozone causes by CFCs?

Why aren’t they screaming about it getting bigger anymore?

Well, that’s because we stopped using CFCs and stopped releasing refrigerant from old air conditioners (including cars), and fridges, and freezers, etc into the air. We attacked it so quickly that the hole in the ozone stopped growing, and now it’s slowly shrinking, but too slowly because we’re still harming it in other ways.

IF we attack climate change in general like we did the ozone depletion (Ozone is O3, Oxygen we breathe is O2), by reducing the carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane emissions into our air, clean up out physical messes, and plant more trees, especially the ones that do the best job of converting carbon dioxide to oxygen not only will our planet/hot dog continue to sustain our lives, but they’ll sustain the lives of our children, their children and so on down the line.

So, my question to you and other Conservatives, which is more pro-life and cares more about our children and their children and so on?

Making sure the planet that supports ALL our lives continues to do so, by spending money now

or

Making them spend 100 times the amount of money in less than 50 years to find a new planet because WE did nothing to save the planet when we could,