[wddkcs]

I agree with the first sentence. Alternatively, it's amazing how the environmental activists pushing these agendas are focusing on such bad faith efforts. Where has the outcry been to put sulfur back in maritime fuel, as another commenter mentioned? Where is the effort to fix America's broken recycling system? Where is the effort to eliminate the millions of pieces of daily junk mail?

If environmental efforts weren't targeted at the most authoritarian and obtuse results (demands to stop all car use, mass polluters being labeled green through the use of carbon credits, etc.) it'd be a lot easier to take the threat seriously. When the solution to the problem is 'pay me more money and do the things I want you to do' it turns the 'extinction level threat' into just another sales pitch.

[lm28469]

Complain about "bad faith efforts" and finish with a bad faith argument, beautiful

idk where you get your sources but if all you see is activists asking to ban cars and advocate for carbon credits you really haven't look hard enough (or at all)

[wddkcs]

Why aren't activists immediately pushing to re-add sulfur? If you see that as bad faith, I guess we don't see the world close enough to discuss

[eru]

Ironically enough, burning lots of sulfur is the only thing that has ever worked against global warming.

As in it's the only thing that has both been tried and that has worked.

For very good reasons (eg we don't like acid rain) we stopped putting so much sulfur in the atmosphere. And if we were to do it again, we wouldn't do it by burning dirty coal near to the ground. We would probably do it via additives to jet fuel.

[wddkcs]

Has it really decreased the prevalence of acid rain that much, and was acid rain really that large an issue? I haven't heard anything about it since the 90s.

[alangibson]

Downvoted for straw man argument, dog whistles and uninformed comment about what activists are doing, not because I disagree (I do).

[semi-extrinsic]

I am confused by the use of the term dog whistle in this context. Can you point out the dog whistles in the GP post?

[popol12]

Quite a straw man argument you’re making here

[wddkcs]

That climate activists should be immediately pushing to re&add sulfur? Please show one source citing negative effects of an effort to re-add, and one source citing positive effects of its removal. I find it funny to have three such vapid responses in such a short time.

Almost as if people latch onto the emotional immediacy of being 'activists for good' instead of making substantive change.