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Lets assume everything the Greenies say about Global Warming is true and soon all our cities will be flooded as the Ice Caps melt due to rising CO2 levels. In that case, shouldn’t Environmentalists be backing these three proposals:
1) Why not build levees around our costal cities? Us folks inland will donate the dirt and broken concrete from our construction projects. The Government only has to pay to have railroads (the cheapest form of land transport) haul it to costal cities. And then you guys dump it out wherever you think best until your cities are protected by levees 300 feet high and a thousand feet wide. You can cover them with grass and trees and on the ocean side have a nice sandy beach and you can line the top with a bunch of windmills.
2) Why not plant a tree that will take in carbon dioxide in the corner of every other parking stall? Nobody parks within a foot of the corner of the parking stall anyway. In the winter when the parking lot is covered with snow you’ll still be able to see where the parking stalls are at. In the summer you’ll be able to park your car in the shade and instead of a blazing hot trek across an oven-hot parking lot you can enjoy a nice stroll in the shade watching squirrels scamper and listening to the birds singing in the trees and you wash your car every week anyway.
3) Why not plant vines in planters outside the window of every skyscraper? These will restore the green environment lost to the city and the vines will take in CO2 from all the cars on the street and so stop air pollution at it’s source.
Watch shows about the rebuilding and you will see that quite a few new regulations are out there. A THOUSAND FT WIDE LEVEE WILL TAKE IN MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF HOUSING AND BUSINESSES. (sorry those darn caps)
Any particular reason why you would put these levees on land occupied by buildings rather than on the water?
That would hurt the environment, don't you know? I find a lot of amusement in the fact that every "green" idea has just as much or more of a detrimental effect than the technology that it is supposed to replace. For example, burning coal and oil are bad, but nuclear power is a no-no and solar fields and windmills wreak havoc on the wildlife. The only way to stop or even greatly slow the effect of mankind on the environment would be to return to pre-fire caveman technology.
Hmm 30 years ago we would all be under water according to some. The ice caps are melting... mmm if you take a glass and fill it with water and ice to the brim and then wait for the ice to melt what happens?
Guess what the glass doesnt over flow... how come?
Global Climate Change in whatever form does not require us to do crap.
IF you live near a ocean or river in general your asking for disaster and it has nothing to do with melting ice caps.
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