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I got an electric car several years ago. I got it because it was fast and fun. Then people started telling me how I was helping the environment (the whole CO2 ➡️ Global warming thing). I'd always assumed that to be true but I'd also not put much thought into it nor had I modified any behaviors.

Anyway I decided to research the topic, starting from the position that humans are increasing CO2 levels which is increasing global temperatures which is dangerous. I found the opposite to be true. Humans play a role in increasing CO2 but it's not a major role. Increasing CO2 levels are not dangerous. 97% of climate scientists do not agree with the AGW theory, as Obama and Gore claimed. The exact same gaslighting, censorship and removal from society that is taking place with COVID hysteria took place and continues to take place with AGW theory. If you disagree with the party line, you are castigated in the media and if you're a scientist then (poof), your funding disappears. It's just like what happened with Dr. Duesberg when he dared to disagree with the statement that HIV is the cause of aids. He went from 7 year grants at UC Berkeley to never being funded again and being attacked by the majority of his peers. Not because he was wrong, but because that's what his peers needed to do to keep their funding.

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"...starting from the position that humans are increasing CO2 levels which is increasing global temperatures which is dangerous"

For every 2500 molecules of air there is one CO2 molecule. Everybody panic.

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Kudos for opening your mind. I tried with my family, on CAGW, but there's no way they're going to agree with "those people", and the rationalization is off the charts. They can dismiss any/all evidence against because it "has to help", etc. ad nauseum.

I haven't even tried with this vaccine thing, once I saw very early on that it had become exactly the same kind of issue.

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So many families like yours and mine

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Not to mention... where do you get electricity? Sigh. Low O2 voters.

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Not to mention that the very people screaming that "we" need to change our lives "for the earth" are the same people/corporations etc who *have* been destroying the earth and have no plans whatsoever to change their lives or standard of living. That's just for us. It's disgusting.

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