Lynnie

It's a good question and one that deserves a proper reply. I'm a conservationist and have been so since I was a teenager, quite some time ago. I've planted hundreds of trees, volunteered for conservation charities, I garden organically for the benefit of wildlife, have been involved in lots of conservation campaigns, have raised money for environmental charities and even voted for the Green Party back in the days when it was an environmental party not a socialist one. As a conservationist, I support not wasting precious resources. I support more fuel-efficient vehicles. I don't like waste, I support better insulation for homes, I shout at my kids about wasting water and electricity. I try to recycle as much as I can. I make my own compost and grow my own fruit and vegetables. I've driven a succession of elderly second-hand cars rather than buy brand new ones. I walk or use public transport when I can. So why am I so opposed to Net Zero and all things carbon emission-related? Because it's not about the environment, it's all about politics, money and control. It's about using the environment and "carbon emissions" as an excuse to curtail freedoms, change people's behaviour and shepherd in a one world government, while making a small elite of already rich people even richer. If these changes really were for the good of the planet, we wouldn't be moving from use of one set of rare resources - fossil fuels - whose production damages the environment, to another set of rare resources - the minerals needed for electric vehicles and wind turbines and solar panels, whose production damages the environment. The other reason I'm opposed to the whole climate change shenanigans is it's very clearly a scam. How can we tell? 1. The models predicting future temperature changes have been repeatedly shown to be an exaggeration 2. Their authors don't admit they were wrong. 3. Scientists opposing the climate change narrative are silenced. If the science was strong, there would be no need to silence opposition to it. 4. Politicians who predict climate catastrophe unless we all change our behaviour, don't change their behaviour and are still jetting around and buying beachfront mansions. Rather like they partied the nights away bring COVID lockdown rules while enforcing them on us. 5. The levels of fear being ramped up in the media. As with COVID, if the evidence of catastrophe was all around us, there would be no need for a campaign of fear by the media. 6. The climate I experience today in the UK is very similar to the one I experienced as a child numerous decades ago. 7. All of the changes that have been made to date have resulted in "carbon emissions" previously made in Western countries being exported to China and other parts of the world which only pay lip service to the "climate science". So their populations experience all of the benefits of economic growth while Western countries decline. 8. The ever changing narrative. "An ice age is coming. No, global warming. Actually, no it's climate change, it might also get cold in some places. It's a CLIMATE EMERGENCY! The world will end by 2050 unless we reduce "carbon emissions". No, sorry, it's 2030!" 9. Possibly the worst aspect of the climate change scam is that so much effort is being wasted on futile efforts to stop climate change, a process which has gone on since long before humans existed or since the internal combustion engine was invented, which should be spent instead on genuine environmental problems: pollution, litter, waste disposal, loss of habitat, species protection. Mando, I love the countryside, I love nature, I have two children, I want the planet to be in a better state when they're my age than it is today. But the "climate emergency" is just another scam to divert money, power and control to a rich elite who don't give a toss about the planet.