Carl St. James
2 min readSep 8, 2022

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OK, I'll bite. But I won't write a scathing critique of your lack of any references to your ridiculous declarations because that would not promote positive discussion.

Instead I'll flip it: We had the message wrong from the beginning. Rather than concentrating on the climate we should have made the impending drying up of the planet's oil reserves our top priority. Current predictions state our reserves will run dry in 51 years and this was in 2015 so we have only 44 years left. https://group.met.com/en/mind-the-fyouture/mindthefyouture/when-will-fossil-fuels-run-out#:~:text=According%20to%20research%20based%20on%202015%20data%2C%20the,example%2C%20oil%20deposits%20will%20be%20gone%20by%202052. Had we had concentrated on building renewable energy solutions as the top priority at the turn of the century so we could continue actually having energy the climate would have sorted itself out anyway and the finite nature of our fossil fuel reserves isn't up for debate; they will run out at some point. The Russia/Ukraine war might actually help this along because Russia cutting off the gas supplies gives us a good idea of what it will look like when it can't be bought from anywhere.

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Nope. Can't do it. No visible evidence? Really?!?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/05/large-parts-of-amazon-may-never-recover-major-study-says

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/water-companies-are-dumping-raw-sewage-into-rivers-and-seas-without-permits-dispatches-investigation-reveals/ar-AA11dcnb

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/ocean-acidity-rising-in-new-zealand-coastal-waters/ar-AA11fOND

https://en.mercopress.com/2006/06/12/argentina-s-patagonia-with-85-degree-of-desertification

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/07/china-reports-most-severe-heatwave-and-lowest-rainfall-on-record

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121105200054.htm

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/unavoidable-greenland-ice-melt-to-raise-sea-level-by-10-inches-e2-80-98realistically-this-figure-will-more-than-double-e2-80-99/ar-AA11fcae

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/europe-has-had-the-e2-80-98hottest-summer-on-record-e2-80-99/ar-AA11AMBv

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62189272?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HaA8YwslnExensbLfoQvOa_Oqmwmoi-LG8WoCtkeKZ6OC8AyHZCmo77dhkuvcMDe3PwKN

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/california-wildfires-heatwave-whats-ahead

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/november/scientists-warn-of-a-clear-and-unequivocal-climate-emergency.html

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Carl St. James
Carl St. James

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