Not long to wait…… Autocar drive review on March 9

[Sir Donald Trump]

I was doing my best to sit this one out but I couldn't refrain any longer...

Volcanoes aren't brought up in climate change discussions for two reasons:

1. There's nothing we can do about them, and
2. They're not actually a problem.

Volcanoes have been erupting for hundreds of millions of years, and over a long period of time, the carbon that they emit simply gets re-absorbed back into the soil, the rocks, the ocean, the plants, etc., and also pulled down into the Earth's core by plate tectonic subduction. This is called the "deep carbon cycle". Point being: even though volcanic eruptions are sudden, violent events, they are actually in balance with the Earth as a whole.

The problem comes when humans arrive on the scene and start digging up fossilized trees from hundreds of millions of years ago and burning them for energy. The rate at which all eight billion of us are doing this globally is rapidly upsetting the inputs of an equation that had been in balance for billions of years.

Also, just in terms of numbers, volcanoes emit approximately 0.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, globally, whereas humans emit 35 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, or roughly 117x as much as volcanoes. (link)

Gasoline-powered vehicles are bad for the environment. So are electric vehicles. So is heating your home, so is growing oil palms for hand soap, so is buying food from the grocery store, so is building a new house to live in, so is building hydroelectric dams, and so is using the internet. Literally everything that makes up our current comfortable "western lifestyle" actually harms the planet in some way. This truth is so uncomfortable for most people to hear that they will more often than not just reject it altogether and reply with some witty-sounding quip that they heard on a radio talk show one time.

If we really want to get serious about helping the planet then we need to start talking about reducing our global human population—through completely ethical, voluntary means, of course! (Some people are so foreign to the topic of human overpopulation that they automatically think that you're advocating for genocide or forced-sterilization)

But yet again, having children is such a fundamental part of most peoples' minds and life experience that they would rather simply ignore any suggestion that the Earth is overpopulated or that our lifestyles are fundamentally unsustainable. But that doesn't change the fact that having one fewer child is 24x better for the environment than never driving a car again. (link)

It's a fundamental paradigm shift that most people aren't willing to let themselves have.

wow, very interesting indeed, great post

 

[Tailslides]

I was doing my best to sit this one out but I couldn't refrain any longer...

Volcanoes aren't brought up in climate change discussions for two reasons:

1. There's nothing we can do about them, and
2. They're not actually a problem.

Volcanoes have been erupting for hundreds of millions of years, and over a long period of time, the carbon that they emit simply gets re-absorbed back into the soil, the rocks, the ocean, the plants, etc., and also pulled down into the Earth's core by plate tectonic subduction. This is called the "deep carbon cycle". Point being: even though volcanic eruptions are sudden, violent events, they are actually in balance with the Earth as a whole.

The problem comes when humans arrive on the scene and start digging up fossilized trees from hundreds of millions of years ago and burning them for energy. The rate at which all eight billion of us are doing this globally is rapidly upsetting the inputs of an equation that had been in balance for billions of years.

Also, just in terms of numbers, volcanoes emit approximately 0.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, globally, whereas humans emit 35 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, or roughly 117x as much as volcanoes. (link)

Gasoline-powered vehicles are bad for the environment. So are electric vehicles. So is heating your home, so is growing oil palms for hand soap, so is buying food from the grocery store, so is building a new house to live in, so is building hydroelectric dams, and so is using the internet. Literally everything that makes up our current comfortable "western lifestyle" actually harms the planet in some way. This truth is so uncomfortable for most people to hear that they will more often than not just reject it altogether and reply with some witty-sounding quip that they heard on a radio talk show one time.

If we really want to get serious about helping the planet then we need to start talking about reducing our global human population—through completely ethical, voluntary means, of course! (Some people are so foreign to the topic of human overpopulation that they automatically think that you're advocating for genocide or forced-sterilization)

But yet again, having children is such a fundamental part of most peoples' minds and life experience that they would rather simply ignore any suggestion that the Earth is overpopulated or that our lifestyles are fundamentally unsustainable. But that doesn't change the fact that having one fewer child is 24x better for the environment than never driving a car again. (link)

It's a fundamental paradigm shift that most people aren't willing to let themselves have.

We don't have children, how many cars can I justify in my collection I can only drive one at a time of course

 

[EspritGuy]

So press embargo is March 9th? Typically someone breaks it... just so they are first... Also timezone? Porsche World someone always is early on "accident"... Hope that is the case sometime tomorrow.

Back in the day, breaking embargo was a violation of trust with the source. The penalty was a justifiable banishment from source material. Journalists were given special access to sources and content, in exchange for release timing strictures.
Quality content is king despite the current sloppy rush to publish first.
This is also about integrity and professionalism.
When competing for readers/ eyeballs the best content wins.
Just say'in.......