An Inconvenient Truth
I’ve seen the Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth and was alarmed, then I became desensitized.
For most of my life, my Generation, early millennials were told that We are ruining the earth. I was sympathetic to the villain who wanted to steal shutdown codes of polluters around the world in the Nothing But the Truth episode of SeaQuest, one of my favorite shows. During the episode, they mention the Cuyahoga River as an example of severe environmental pollution, noting that it was so contaminated that it caught fire. I remember being appalled and scared about the future. That was in 1993. In the same show it was also mentioned that there is a ban on cows as their farst contributed to global warming as methane they farted is 28 times more potent then CO2.
First, it was The Population Bomb scare, there are too many people on Earth. In 1968, when the book was published, the global population was approximately 3.55 billion. As of March 2025, the world population is about 8.2 billion. Currently, there are around 62 humans per square km. And our presence is on about 39% of Earth's surface. 12
Then forests began to melt under Acid rain. The transportation and industrialization boom of the 1950s resulted in massive amounts of Sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) being released into the atmosphere. In 1979, 51 countries signed the United Nations Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP), acknowledging the need for collaborative efforts to address pollution crossing national boundaries. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the US amended its Clear Air Act to fix that issue, after all, everyone likes their cars. This issue is largely fixed except in China and other emerging countries, with “approximately 34% of cities monitored in China experienced acid rain in 2020”.3
I remember as a kid driving with my family down to the coastline through beautiful forest and being sad that all of the forest would be gone from one thing that made them so green and lush, the rain. I’m glad we got our shit together for that one.
At the same time, we were baking under the UV rays that passed through the depleted ozone layer. After all, it was the 80s, and a person not using hairspray was totally lame. Sun will burn you, and everyone will get skin cancer was the scare of the time. The CFCs, or Chlorofluorocarbons, were used as propellants in aerosol products, including hair sprays. They served to expel the liquid concentrate from the can, dispersing it as a fine mist. In 1974, chemists F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario J. Molina published research indicating that CFCs could deplete the ozone layer. Their findings led to global concern and eventually to the adoption of the Montreal Protocol in 1987, an international treaty aimed at phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances, including CFCs.4
Then there is the ever-present boogeyman, Carbon Dioxide, the CO2. 5
Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere drive an increase in plant photosynthesis—an effect known as the carbon fertilization effect. New research has found that between 1982 and 2020, global plant photosynthesis grew 12 percent, tracking CO2 levels in the atmosphere as they rose 17 percent. The vast majority of this increase in photosynthesis was due to carbon dioxide fertilization.
Researchers have long understood that Earth's warmest period occurred approximately 50 million years ago, when atmospheric CO₂ levels surged to around 1,600 parts per million (ppm), leading to global temperatures about 12°C higher than those of today. By roughly 2.5 million years ago, CO₂ had fallen to around 270–280 ppm, triggering a cycle of recurring ice ages. CO₂ remained at or below that level when modern humans emerged approximately 400,000 years ago, and stayed relatively stable until large-scale human emissions began altering the atmosphere about 250 years ago.6 Current levels are 420 ppm.
Then there’s a constant scare about sea level rise. It has been terrifying people for my entire life. A United Nations Environmental Program report suggested that rising sea levels could eliminate entire nations by 2000. Executive director of the UN Environment Programme, Mostafa Tolba, claimed that an environmental catastrophe is irreversible. Maldivian authorities warned that the islands would be completely submerged within 30 years. Beaches of Los Angeles and New York could be completely gone by 2020. Florida Keys, Bangladesh, and Washington DC and Chesapeake Bay and London, and the list goes on and on. While billionaires are still buying seaside properties…
Let me get one thing straight. I’m well aware that we are polluting our environment. There is no better illustration for me than when I go for a boat ride on a nearby river after heavy rain. The canopies of trees that were underwater in its canyon like riverbed are covered with plastic bags that droop like some sick ice-sickles. Makes my stomach churn.
It tells me more about other people than anything else.
Even now, the Official NOAA climate program can’t agree with what they believe in.
In 2024, it was official, it’s the worst since we started measuring. With the operative word being, since WE started measuring.
But if we look a little further….
A year later, they showcased that human influence on global temperature is minimal. According to the latest data, we are actually living in the coldest period in Earth’s history. Or better said We did as it ended some 12.000 years ago.
Then there are those who are forcing the new Green agenda, closing down nuclear power plants, and forcing us to buy toxic solar panels without any, and I mean any consideration for the future generations they are so evangelizing for. Leaving them to pick up the pieces of their ill tought out agenda to save the planet instead of “act locally, think globally”.
I think that was the best slogan ever and should have been pushed more.
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills. And if you wanted to be green, It takes less CO2 to build a freaking Nuclear Plant of, lets say, 50MW, then to build 50MW wind farm. And, that Nuclear Plant will last for decades and is a far cry from nuclear powerplant designs of yesteryears.
According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, current land-based wind-turbine foundations require on average 398 metric tons of concrete per MW installed while Nuclear power plants according to The NIST Concrete Task Group a new, large Nuclear power plant typically needs about 100 000 m³ of concrete per 1 000 MW of capacity—that is, roughly 100 m³ per MW. 78 Three times less.
The production of concrete produces a lot of CO2, and a Nuclear power plant, once built, can last for decades, while wind turbines are decommissioned and rebuilt constantly.
And it’s safer for wildlife, especially for birds.
And don’t get me started on solar. It’s the biggest scam perpetrated on earth. It has nothing to do with becoming sustainable because we don’t see the byproducts of its production. When talking about solar energy its all sun and roses, and no one is talking about how many chemicals or CO2 are released in its production, and what happens to them when they inevetably go dead because they have a working lifespan of some 30 to 40 years but will loose almost 50% of their original output in about 10-20 years. Then what !?
In fact, solar produces 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than does nuclear energy, according to Environmental Progress, a Berkeley, California, nonprofit that supports the expanded use of nuclear energy.9 Biased source, but I believe them.
Then there are EVs. Oh boy. Here’s a nice little extract from a report done in Quillette. I already did a little research into Big Rig EV blunder. In essence, it would take a whole Nuclear power plant to power just a fraction of a percent of trucks on the road today.
A barrel of oil contains about fifty times more energy than the most advanced viable battery of the same weight. This gap is never going to close significantly. It can’t. The energy a battery can supply is dependent on the flow of electrons between different materials, each of which can provide a certain number of electrons for any given weight. You can improve the battery’s charging time or durability or the number of times it can be charged before it starts to fail, but you can’t change the fundamental composition of the materials available any more than you can change lead into gold.
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I don’t know if its getting across but I’m pissed. We have been told that solar and wind will be Earth’s and, in extension, our saviors, but it turns out they are even more “toxic” for the environment. We look at solar and wind and think, look, a cheap and renewable source of power without thinking about how its made and what happens to the panel after its relatively short lifespan.
Not to mention the vast need to restructure our existing power grid to accommodate these (solar, wind) inherently intermittent power sources. Just a short couple of weeks ago, we witnessed the first of such failures, which, I predict, will become more and more frequent, when Spain and Portugal suffered the worst blackout in living memory of Europe. Spain and Portugal are sourcing about 80% of their electricity from solar and wind. I especially liked it when they blamed the “rare atmospheric phenomenon” without any specifics, while the weather in Spain was completely normal on that Monday.10
It is becoming more and more obvious that we are being sold a lie, or at least a half-truth. But on the other hand, we all know the story about the boy who cried Wolf?
I’m done, just done caring about this shit, I’m done beeing afraid. I will still recycle, pick up my trash because I don’t want to live in a garbage dump. And, will continue to act locally.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST
https://www.fao.org/sustainability/news/detail/en/c/1274219/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/acid-rain-environment-earth-day/
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/cfcsozone/cfcs-ozone.pdf
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/01/27/how-climate-change-will-affect-plants/
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/12/07/a-new-66-million-year-history-of-carbon-dioxide-offers-little-comfort-for-today/
https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy23osti/81483.pdf
https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=908669
https://www.mackinac.org/blog/2022/bright-panels-dark-secrets-the-problem-of-solar-waste
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/29/what-caused-the-blackout-in-spain-and-portugal-and-did-renewable-energy-play-a-part