It's getting hot in here

<center></center> ----------------------- As I mentioned in a few of my posts over the last couple of weeks, I recently got onboarded to a platform called Prolific. It's a US only thing where businesses and universities post studies for people to participate in. After you complete the study, you get a specific amount of money for participating. That's not really what this post is about though. Over the past couple of weeks, I have noticed more and more studies related to climate change on the Prolific site. While some people might be instantly triggered by something like that, I don't really mind too much. You see, I am one of the woke sheep who think that climate change is indeed real. I honestly guess we shouldn't be surprised that something as obvious as keeping our planet healthy has been so politicized. Whenever there is money involved, you better believe there is going to be some effort to control it. <center></center> ------------------------- One of the big arguments I have heard against climate change is that the whole thing is cyclical. I guess I should take a step back first. I think there isn't as much debate about climate change in general as there is about how much impact humans have on said climate change. It's highly likely that one side of the political spectrum does believe climate change exists, but they don't feel that humans are the exacerbating factor in it as some would believe. Personally, while I do agree that climate changes across the planet over the eons are likely a bit cyclical, I can't overlook the fact that humans are introducing a lot of additional factors which never existed before. Take for example the wildfires that seem to be so common across the globe these days. I have little doubt fires like that have been happening for centuries if not longer. Lightning strikes a tree in a forest and then next thing you know the countryside is on fire. The key difference is the stuff that falls in the path of said fire. Before humans were so conspicuous, these things would do their work and then fizzle out for one reason or another. As I said though, humans have this keen desire to build things and those things we build, only cause more issues. <center></center> --------------------- Have you ever seen a couch catch fire? Living in the country, I have been to my fair share of bonfires where just about anything has been thrown on the pile. I remember when I moved out of my old house and in with @mrsbozz, we took the couch from that old house to my buddies to burn. It's downright scary how fast that thing went up. I mean terrifying. It was engulfed in some of the hottest heat I have ever felt. Now imagine a whole community of houses full of couches and other highly flammable furniture. It's a bit easy to see how it becomes so hard for them to control these blazes. <center></center> ----------------------- Sadly, it's likely only going to get worse and worse. The problem with greener technologies as I see it is two-fold. First, the whole idea of renewable energy has become so political that people reject it simply because of how they vote each election. In addition to that, I think it has been oversold. It's not that I don't think solar power has its uses, but I think the carbon footprint likely isn't as "clean" as they might lead you to believe. In addition to that, I can't necessarily support razing green spaces to put up a massive so […]