Environment Movements Mythology
There are people who are serious about protecting the environment. Their homes are powered by wind power, an environmentally friendly renewable energy source. When they buy things at the grocery store, they put them in paper bags instead of plastic bags. When drinking, they have take-out coffee, use paper straws instead of plastic straws. For the welfare of animals, they eat cattle that have been grazed on the ranch.
How much do their actions contribute to the preservation of the global environment?
In fact, it doesn't help that much.
Wind power destroys the ecosystem by killing migratory birds and insects moving through the air current. Paper bags emit more carbon than plastic bags during the manufacturing process. It is more eco-friendly than plastic bags when reused more than 44 times. Of the 9 million tons of plastic that flows into the sea annually, only 0.03% of them is made up of straw.
Grazing cattle have a longer breeding period. They eat more food and fart. The carbon emission per kilogram of meat from grazing cattle is four times higher than that of cattle raised in factory farming.
In other words, it is a 'human illusion' that has been projected onto the earth and animals. It is better to use ‘nuclear power’, with little carbon emissions, and it is more urgent to save the turtles who die during the fishing process.
The risk of climate change has been exaggerated.
The situation on Earth is not so bad. Between 2007 and 2018, the U.S. cut carbon emissions by 27% and the U.K. by 63%. Although 5.4 million people died in natural disasters in the 1920s, only 400,000 in the 2010s. There is also a United Nations (UN) study that, despite climate change, global food production will increase by at least 20% by 2050.
There is no evidence that the number of polar bears, which became a symbol of climate catastrophe, declined despite warming. Some reports that “the civilization is likely to end by 2030” and books such as “2050 Inhabitable Earth” have been greatly exaggerated.
How about vegetarianism?
It is often thought that vegetarianism reduces greenhouse gas emissions. If you don't eat meat, you won't have to grow grains for feed, and emissions of greenhouse gases such as methane from cattle and pigs through burping and farting will disappear. But globally, even if all humans become vegetarians, carbon emissions are only reduced by 4% of the total.
Solar and wind power generation, which are attracting attention as eco-friendly energy, also reveals a shabby reality. It is a well-known fact that they are less efficient than nuclear power. Solar power plants and wind power plants should be used for 25 to 50 percent of the country's land in US so that all the energy currently consumed in the United States can be used.
Wind power is also not environmental friendly to nature. According to a 2018 German study, about 1.2 trillion various insects die each year in the process of wind power generation. Swarms of insects move through using air currents as well as a generator is installed on same airflow because the ‘airstream’ is very efficient to install. Birds and bats are similarly killed by wind turbines.
Protecting nature is the irony of human civilization.
What steps should be taken to preserve the forest?
There must be a power plant. In underdeveloped countries, there is no electricity, so trees are used as firewood, but power plants prevent logging. There must also be a factory. Slash-burn farmers who burn forests and farm, can earn a living in new ways while working in factories. Factory farm should be introduced. Primitive forests can be preserved by eliminating the needs to raise cattle on pastures made by burning Amazon forest.
Apocalyptic environmentalism has fulfilled the same concept of spiritual needs that religion used to provide. It has instilled a sense of purpose that mankind must sacrifice to save the planet from climate change.
No one denies Climate change is a real reality. However, the solution is not in'nature', but in'civilization'. Only when humanity develops further can wisely overcome the climate change. The Amazon was not the lungs of the Earth, it was not Greenpeace that has stopped whaling, but the discovery of a replacement for whale oil.