Cannuck, why I don't use quote option is because I only reply for the general audience when I get baited into it and with some benefit of formulating and hearing my own thoughts. We exchanged enough info here to know we are on the opposites of ideas and reality. Most often it seems to me that we don't understand each other's posts which makes things simply futile.
I don't know why you bring up covid funding. I don't think I qualified for it and this stuff doesn't affect me but as I mentioned before if you think money is better spent by government than yourself than I guess leave the money with the government.
I am not against tech, although technology has long term consequences to our society and some of it is probably very unhealthy. There is a lot of opposition to 5G and there are more chemical compounds being created than we can test for safety. Also, tech can and has affected human interaction in a significant way and probably not for the best.
No one here, I imagine, should be against green tech, even if it is not obvious now but competition is very healthy and utilization of hydrocarbons is not going away either. If I am against something it is the radical government taxation and subsidization and overall irresponsible public energy policy. No one is hiding green tech, if it was competitive it will be utilized. In some remote areas I don't doubt solar power is very economical and useful.
I am not a fan of fake moral stances on the environment which seems to be the mob of today's times, indoctrinating children and using them as pawns and supporting policy that will have horrible effects on society. I don't doubt your connection to the environment and your way of life. However, taxing carbon and making it more expensive is unfair to regular people that struggle to get by, first thing that is needed is to lift people from poverty so they can be a in position to care for the environment.
Politics and Science, measuring the consequences of green policy on the climate is impossible.
"this is also a problem I have with the environmentalist movement is there is a powerful stream of anti-human sentiment that motivates it and masquerading under the guise of a virtue on planetary scale"
