Re: Gold Rush towns burned down all the time during the gold rush..
Author: BN Oly
Date: 08-05-2021 - 21:32
SP5103 Wrote:
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> I have to laugh at "zero emissions" vehicles that
> are being promoted. The vehicle and parts have to
> be made which creates pollution/emissions.
> Batteries typically use some really nasty
> chemicals and metals, which have to be mined. And
> it has to be charged which takes electricity which
> has to be generated - and that power generation,
> regardless of source, creates emissions (including
> component manufacture) or an environmental impact
> one way or the other. And the longer that
> electricity has to be transferred from source to
> use also requires the materials for the power
> lines as well as their impact, not to mention
> transmission losses. Remember the Dixie Fire was
> likely started by a tree falling into a power
> line.
>
> I don't deny global climate change and mankind's
> responsibility. But, a major volcanic eruption can
> just as easily modify the earth's weather. In
> geologic time, the little ice age wasn't that long
> ago. Yet for some reason we expect that the
> weather has to be within the exact same "average"
> it has in the last century or so.
>
> The drought and heat have ben a large part of the
> cause, but you also have to consider over a
> century of heavy fire suppression, environmental
> restrictions on logging or controlled burns, and
> far more people living in the middle of the
> wildlands and forest areas as a huge portion of
> the equation.
>
> What the average person thinks is a beautiful
> thick forest may work in some areas of high
> precipitation as long as the trees aren't in
> excess of their natural life, but in areas of low
> precipitation those thick forests are often two to
> four times more dense than can be supported during
> an extended drought.
>
> This big blue marvel we live on seems to get
> smaller every day and we do need to take
> reasonable steps to take care of it.
Amen, sir.