This anti-environmentalist tactic of countering critiques of
industrial impacts on the planet with lies, obfuscation and defamation has a long history.
Not exact matches
The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent
on the
planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the
impact of urbanization, mass education, and the
industrial revolution
on Europeans» understanding of themselves.
Cool
Planet's proposed facility will provide enormous help in learning how to make biochar at
industrial scales in a way that could help make a material
impact on removing carbon from the atmosphere.
So, in the case of climate change, if we could flip a magic switch and turn off all our carbon emissions today, we would still see the
impact of the
Industrial Revolution
on our
planet for well over 5,000 years.
Given that the cosmic ray effect described by Svensmark would be more than sufficient to account for the net estimated temperature change since the
Industrial Revolution, the key question becomes: Has human activity actually warmed, cooled or had no net
impact on the
planet?
But by asking if we could «see» truly ancient
industrial civilizations, we were forced to ask about the generic kinds of
impacts any civilization might have
on a
planet.