My opinion is that until people in this hobby call out the bogus scientific method/religion and so-called "science" employed to "prove" theories like anthropogenic global warming--the same bogus methods and so-called "science" will be employed to shut this hobby down....
Hate to break it to everyone but society and the scientific community accepting the non-scientific methods employed to supposedly show there is man made "global warming"--spelled the end of real science and created the latest (retread) era of
political science...
I live in Washington state. 18,000 years ago my home was covered by a glacier... reefs were not where they are today. The weather was a heck of a lot different and no one was driving cars. Fast forward to today, a cosmic blip in time; People dont have a "global" impact on the weather--hate to break it to everyone--and so-called "science" trying to show otherwise is absurd and "junk" paid for crap. Just like the so called "science" supporting the Hawaii ban and attacking the aquarium trade.
Reefers better make the link.. because waaay too many pray to the manmade global warming god but then hypocritically call out the science supposedly supporting banning the aquarium trade. They're aint a dimes worth a difference in the either "science"--it's all junk. You cant criticize one and support the other. The methods, bogus as they are, are the same.
As Micheal Crichton, hardly someone against protecting the environment(!!), pointed out the manmade global warming theory is a religion relying on faith, not science.
Quite frankly, it's nauseating to watch scientists getting paid/funding to come to pre-determined, bought and paid for, outcomes whether it be manmade global warming "research" or "studies" showing the aquarium trade is causing fish and coral extinctions...
Environmentalism was legitimate and sincere when it relied on the scientific method, as in repeatable, testable, and constantly questioning all premises type work, to show how things can be actually be done to reduce actual pollution...
But now the environmental movement's radical departure from science, and scientific method, into the catch all political-regious faith based environmental movements undid its credibility.
Al Gore said we'd all be dead in the mid 2000's. Whatever happened there??
Even Michael Moore, although still praying to global warming god because of marxist end game it offers, has come around to recognizing the lack of any science in any purported solutions.
The bans on aquarium trade and green energy mandates are based on the same bogus science. It's poltical crap is what it is. Maybe with good intentions but it's still crap science.
With acceptance of junk political science as fact, every industry must now play survival of the political fittest, nothing to do with science at all. The industries that can bribe scientists, researchers, politicians, and propagandize the most effectively--will surivive. Those that cant--wont.
I have firsthand experience in this in the wood stove industry. My family has run a wood stove store for 50 years. Now, the most sustainable source of heat has been banned basically out existence (actually just to canada largely) for what? The answer is NOTHING. Based on what. Garbage science and make work government jobs destroying sound jobs and environmentally friendly industry.
I went to law school to try to work with these wackos, find a middle ground and dropped environmental law because the movement is nuts. I mean legitimately nuts. There is no middle ground.
And im all for environmental protection. Been a spey fisherman for steelhead and an alaskan fly fishing guide for years.
But, trust fund baby urban environmentalist law students, the same types litigating hawaii bans, who couldn't tell the difference between an alder and an oak and who have downed the environmental-religion-kool-aid to a point of no return, and who have spend more time on an iphone in an apartment in pick-your-favorite-city than the woods, the ocean, or on or in the water, and their ivory tower tenored professors utterly disconnected from the real world, living in acedemic marxist-group-think-bubbles (with 80% pay every four years on sabbatical and guaranteed government loans they never have to service paying their salaries) literally believe the law must mandate zero pollution within our lifetimes. And if you point out how that would end society, all business, their precious iphones, and destroy all economic resources available to protect the environment--they go back to quoting their disciples Karl Marx, Al Gore, amd Ruth Bater Gingberg like of any of those people had any clue about anything.
What i am saying is that whether the aquarium hobby or any industry related to the environment in any way survives enviro-religous attacks--based on junk science--is now solely dependent on lobbying and political capital. Science is now bought and paid for, most money coming from one source, i.e., govt, and the scientific method or critical thinking or actual problem solving has nothing to do with it.
Notice how basically no scientists openly criticizes the bogus scientific method used to attack the aquarium hobby-- the same as basically none openly criticize the same global warming junk science. Criticizing either would be professional suicide and they'd never get govt funding or published again.... so much for scientific method and challenging dogma.
Wake up reefers... attack the premise... attack all junk science... ESPECIALLY the biggest offender--that is anything purporting to support anthropogenic global warming--or this hobby and every industry without enormous political capital is on the nutjob-environmental-religion chopping block... i have firsthand experience, learn vicariously or lose your hobby...
