We’re divorced from nature and disconnected from wild places. I think this has really hurt us in multiple ways, some of which we are still figuring out, but especially in the way it’s allowed people to desecrate the land, air, and water we rely on for life. Yet people are so resistant to acknowledging climate change and what needs to be done. This could be because of the doom-and-gloom approach many folks take that can be outright depressing or the overwhelming amount of inputs that cause people to simply shut down. It might also just be hard to wrap our heads around how it’s possible to destroy something as vast as the ocean and sky.
Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m hoping to provide you with a different perspective on climate change revolving around hope and positivity. Yes, we still have a long way to go, but we’re seeing some great initiatives and outcomes in places like California where the climate and environment are deemed worthy investments. My guest today is the perfect person to share about those projects, challenges, and victories. Jared Blumenfeld is California’s Secretary for Environmental Protection. Appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in January, he is one of America’s most innovative environmental leaders, with more than 25 years of environmental policy and management experience at the local, national and international levels.
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Hey, I know Jared, I work at CalEPA! Good interview!
How can this conversation not acknowledge or come to grips with solar cycles? We are seeing the start of the 25th 11.8 year cycle going into Solar Minimum. History shows Empires fall at the end points of the cycle.
Solar cycles don’t dump toxic waste, kill off species, poison our water, land and air….so ya
Operation Johnny Appleseed- Reforestation through aerial carpet bombing of tree saplings with biodegradable parachutes. Problem solved!
Grand Solar Minimum.
For the last 150 million years atmospheric carbon dioxide has been gradually declining from 2500 parts per million, getting dangerously close to the threshold of 150 ppm, where plant life cannot survive. As marine organisms have sequestered it over geological time-spans, it has gradually become buried at the bottom of shallow seas, gradually getting removed from the oceans and atmosphere. Too little atmospheric carbon dioxide is the problem, not too much!
By liberating some of the buried carbon as fossil fuels, over the last century we have started getting the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide back to a more healthy 440 ppm, greening the earth. Carbon dioxide is plant food and plants thrive on it. Plants evolved in a far more carbon dioxide rich environment than exists now, with atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide reaching up to 6000 ppm at some points over the last 570 million years. Over this time-span there has been no correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and temperature.
That’s why market gardeners buy canisters of carbon dioxide to pump into their greenhouses to get the level up to 1000 ppm, the plants grow significantly faster. Climate change alarmists don’t want you to know this inconvenient fact, as it goes against their narrative.
SPOT ON!!!! Pollution is something that needs fixing, carbon is not the problem… this is the work of the Sun! Always has been, always will be…
@CryptoChris Agreed.