Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
1 min readJul 28, 2024

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Two issues.

You are showing a northern hemisphere bias. Here in Australia, we had the coldest winter of record and coldest autumn.

Secondly, if I listened to every doomsayer, my house would have been underwater 20 years ago. They have been predicted 30cm- 1.5 metre sea levels in 20 years for almost 40 years.

That doesn't make climate change, man-made climate change, any less real. But the factors involved and the effects it will have, is in a state of flux.

It's a brilliant narrative. If it rains it is climate change, if it doesn't it is climate change. Floods are climate change and no floods are climate change.

For me, the big picture alarmism is actually geared towards inaction. The concept is too abstract for people to really do anything about. Heck if I was a conspiracy theorist I would say big oil is behind half these environmental groups. Because it actually paralyses real environmental action.

It is much better to focus on concepts people can directly relate to. For instance, rather than electric cars and buses to stop global warming in your city, while some other country keeps pumping out- focus on air quality. People can grasp the idea that a tailpipe is bad. Improving public transport stops gridlock, can be more affordable than a car and improves air quality also. Better air quality = CO2, CO reductions...

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Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Written by Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Yaakov is a world traveller and is accused of being an Australian. Published several novels. He writes about travel, writing, geopolitics and trading.

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