potholer54 | Where environmentalists get it wrong (ALL OPINION) @potholer54 | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS: @Devilot109 pointed out that JSO did not "attempt to vandalize paintings" because they acted specifically on paintings protected by glass. So the paintings were undamaged.
The environmental movement has helped shape awareness and change in some hugely important issues, from food contamination to lead poisoning to climate change. But sometimes passion and energy override pragmatism and common sense. Here are a couple of examples, and appeal to follow the science, not the heart.
This video is OPINION. Since so many people misunderstand the difference, an opinion should be based on facts, but it is not itself a fact. You can disagree with an opinion (and please feel free to do so) but you cannot claim that an opinion in right or wrong, correct or incorrect. You cannot overturn a fact with persuasive arguments, but you can overturn an opinion with persuasive arguments -- so I look forward to that.
CORRECTION: I said the Rainbow Warrior was 'placed' on the sea bed and turned into a reef three years after the Brent Spar (i.e. 1998.) In fact, this dumping/placing, happened in 1987.
DONATIONS:
To support this channel, please don't send me money. I prefer people donate to a charity I support called Health in Harmony. See my video youtube.com/watch?v=j9-GRugP9pU for details.
The charity funds hospitals and affordable health care to villages on the edges of national parks, in return for a pledge not to cut down trees. The pledges are monitored, and the result has been a dramatic decrease in deforestation rates and an increase in the health of the local population.
Patients -- mostly from farming families -- can pay for their subsidised treatment with tree saplings or manure. So for them, treatment is essentially free.
The manure goes to organic farms that HiH is encouraging, as it teaches local farmers how to farm organically rather than slash-and-burn the forest.
As for the tree saplings, HiH volunteers plant these in areas of forest that have been illegally cut. This restores the forest, and HiH receives money for this from people and companies who pay for carbon credits. That money goes towards paying doctors, nurses, dentists, and and keeps the clinics running.
See also psmag.com/social-justice/save-the-trees-well-save-your-life-46121 for an explanation of their work.
And please donate here:
healthinharmony.org/donate-today
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS: @Devilot109 pointed out that JSO did not "attempt to vandalize paintings" because they acted specifically on paintings protected by glass. So the paintings were undamaged.
The environmental movement has helped shape awareness and change in some hugely important issues, from food contamination to lead poisoning to climate change. But sometimes passion and energy override pragmatism and common sense. Here are a couple of examples, and appeal to follow the science, not the heart.
This video is OPINION. Since so many people misunderstand the difference, an opinion should be based on facts, but it is not itself a fact. You can disagree with an opinion (and please feel free to do so) but you cannot claim that an opinion in right or wrong, correct or incorrect. You cannot overturn a fact with persuasive arguments, but you can overturn an opinion with persuasive arguments -- so I look forward to that.
CORRECTION: I said the Rainbow Warrior was 'placed' on the sea bed and turned into a reef three years after the Brent Spar (i.e. 1998.) In fact, this dumping/placing, happened in 1987.
DONATIONS:
To support this channel, please don't send me money. I prefer people donate to a charity I support called Health in Harmony. See my video youtube.com/watch?v=j9-GRugP9pU for details.
The charity funds hospitals and affordable health care to villages on the edges of national parks, in return for a pledge not to cut down trees. The pledges are monitored, and the result has been a dramatic decrease in deforestation rates and an increase in the health of the local population.
Patients -- mostly from farming families -- can pay for their subsidised treatment with tree saplings or manure. So for them, treatment is essentially free.
The manure goes to organic farms that HiH is encouraging, as it teaches local farmers how to farm organically rather than slash-and-burn the forest.
As for the tree saplings, HiH volunteers plant these in areas of forest that have been illegally cut. This restores the forest, and HiH receives money for this from people and companies who pay for carbon credits. That money goes towards paying doctors, nurses, dentists, and and keeps the clinics running.
See also psmag.com/social-justice/save-the-trees-well-save-your-life-46121 for an explanation of their work.
And please donate here:
healthinharmony.org/donate-today
