CodyCoonhound Loc: Redbone Country

So, you know nothing of history. One of our great American's named Davy Crockett is that little boy. Pretty accomplished American in most people's book.
The point is, average people let average and antiquated programs prevail. (OhB and his CDC heads)

Great American's realize the current system will not deliver in record time, a solution to make Covid 19 into a memory. A memory that rewrote how the world reacts to bad actors like China in this case.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Get rid of him. He has about 7 months left..

CodyCoonhound Loc: Redbone Country

And actually, the real truth on most of the subjects you list. Full article at:

https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/state-the-planet-better-ever

In one sentence you say the following. Tons of proof to the contrary."In sum, our planet is in a miserable state, we're told over and over."
When actually for all to discover that have not done so yet....

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the single greatest misinformation campaign in world history. The state of our planet and the state of humanity has never been stronger. Nature has never been more bountiful.

I recently wrote of the following six statistics which go a long way to proving how well we are doing. The response from the greens was vitriol and even threats to my physical safety for writing these truths. But no one refuted the facts, because, well facts are facts.

Here they are:

1. Natural resources are more abundant and affordable today than ever before in history. Short term volatility aside, the price of almost all natural resources - from cocoa to cotton to coal - is cheaper today in real terms than 50, 100, or 500 years ago. This has happened even as the world's population has nearly tripled. Technology has far outpaced depletion of the earth's resources.

2. Energy resources are growing. Energy is the master resource; and it is super abundant. Remember when people like Paul Ehrlich nearly 50 years ago and Barack Obama just three years ago warned that we were running out of oil and gas? Today, in the new age of oil and gas thanks to fracking, the United States has hundreds of years of petroleum and an estimated 300 years of coal. We're not running out of energy, we are running into it.

3. Air and water is cleaner than ever. Since the late 1970s, pollutants in the air have plunged. Lead pollution plunged by more than 90 percent, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide by more than 50 percent, with ozone and nitrogen dioxide declining as well. By nearly every standard measure it is much, much, much cleaner today in the United States than 50 and 100 years ago. The air is so clean now that the EPA worries about carbon dioxide, which isn't even a pollutant. (And, by the way, carbon emissions are falling too, thanks to fracking). One hundred years ago, about one in four deaths in America was due to contaminants in drinking water. But from 1971-2002, fewer than three people per year in the United States were documented to have died from water contamination.

4. There is no Malthusian nightmare of overpopulation. Birth rates have fallen by about one-half around the world over the last 50 years. Developed countries are having fewer kids, not too many. Even with a population of 7.3 billion people, average incomes, especially in poor countries, have surged over the last 40 years. The number of people in abject poverty fell by 1 billion between 1981 and 2011, even as global population increased by more than 1.5 billion. That's just short of a miracle.

5. Global per capita food production is 40 percent higher today than as recently as 1950. In most nations the nutrition problem today is obesity - too many calories consumed - not hunger. The number of famines and related deaths over the last 100 years has fallen in half. More than 12 million lives on average were lost each decade from the 1920s-1960s to famine. Since then, fewer than 4 million lives on average per decade were lost. When famine does happen, it's primarily a result of political corruption or malice, not nature growing too little food. Furthermore, the price of food has fallen steadily in the United States - and most other nations steadily for 200 years.

6. The rate of death and physical destruction from natural disasters or severe weather changes has plummeted over the last century. Loss of life from hurricanes, floods, hurricanes, heat, droughts, and so on is at or near record lows. This is because we have much better advance warning systems, our infrastructure is much more durable, and we have things like air conditioning to adapt to weather changes. We are constantly discovering new ways to harness and even tame nature.

Again, these are just standard facts - though not very well known. But you could look them up. The point is that human advance and growth of the economy leads to a steadily improving and bountiful planet.

And the growth comes as a result of free enterprise. The environmentalists have declared free-market capitalism a near-treasonous pursuit. In reality, free markets with reasonable and sane regulation, will save the planet from extinction. Meanwhile, the socialists, the communists, the Sandinistas, the Stalinists, are the ones who did the greatest damage to the planet - with such avoidable catastrophes as the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

The environmentalists still believe that command and control rules and regulations - on how much water can be flushed from our toilets, what kind of light bulbs we can use, the temperature setting of our thermostats, the amount of solar and wind energy we must use, the type of energy efficiency we get from our household appliances, the amount of water we can use to water our lawns (as in California), even limits on how many kids we can have (as in China) - will save the planet.

They won't.

Freedom will.

This is very good news for those who believe that one of our primary missions as human beings is to make life better over time and to leave our planet better off for future generations. That's just what we are doing.

- Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

CodyCoonhound Loc: Redbone Country

As to your summary statement about abortion. Women were given a natural way to govern their own wombs. There are just a few days in 28 that women can produce life. If one wishes to not bring life to the world - then they (Man and Women) should abstain from sex in those few days.

Free sex with the man given right to abort the creation is not natural. No person has the right to destroy a creation of man and women union.

However, man did create a way to prevent abortion. Why don't woman use the multiple solutions if they do not want to bring a creation of their own image into the world. Why do men not ensure they are not performing sex that is likely to produce an un wanted child?

Those, permafrost, are the questions you should be asking yourself!

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Well Stevie, he's lying and here's that I plan to do, vote ABut. That's vote Anybody But Trump. Got that, I plan to vote for the other candidate. I'm guessing a lot of other voters will feel the same.

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Way to go, good post!

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Double meat, what you mean is you can't stand the truth. Listen, you can vote for Biden, no one will know and you will feel better.

GoCubs Loc: Earth

Ignore him.... he has yet to post anything that involves one iota of intellect - ever.

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Trump has boxed himself into a corner. If he told the truth, his supporters would be gone in a flash. Do you think he'll ever accept responsibility for theactions of the Federal Gov't? Imagine hearing "I know Obama's a citizen" or "there was enough medical supplies, I didn't want to release them to stayed that clotted against me". How about "I'm not releasing my taxes because I have financial ties with Russia & besides I'm a tax cheat". Or "I know morning Joe had nothing to do with that women's death, I'm just stirring crap up". Or "I'm not dragging the seeko because I'm still swimming in it". I mean this stuff wouldn't play well.

Double meat with cheese

Why post intelligent things to idiots who fail to comprehend the simplest things?

Yea, that is you I speak of, no sense in sugar coating it....Mensa

Double meat with cheese

Still just a fluff fest.....carry on fluffers

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

You're a real brilliant right? Like other trump sychophants, you can't stand anything negative about trump.

Double meat with cheese

Biden can not find his pudding, you would vote for someone like that....how we got that black 8 yr failure in Afro studies on the American populace.

Good job, very typical of your kind........ruin everything you touch.

GoCubs Loc: Earth

Case in point.

Double meat with cheese

Young lady, I disagree