Climate Change -- conspiracy theory or is it time we all drive a Prius?

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We know it is not important to you because you voted for the open border candidate and have been against any kind of border controls.

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Biden’s Border Policy Is Not “Open Borders”

Practically since his first week in office, President Joe Biden has faced repeated criticisms from Republicans and some Democrats that his border policy amounts to “open borders.” This criticism is not simply inaccurate: it is unhinged from reality in a way that distinguishes itself from normal political hyperbole. Indeed, U.S. immigration policy is effectively closed borders, and Biden’s immigration policies and goals are largely the same as those of President Donald Trump.

Under U.S. immigration law, it is illegal for anyone in the world to travel or immigrate to the United States unless they fall into very narrow exceptions. Like Alcohol Prohibition—which had exemptions for religious, medicinal, or industrial purposes—America’s immigration prohibition’s small exceptions are irrelevant for the vast majority of potential immigrants. Effectively, if they don’t qualify as a select few high skilled workers or family members of U.S. citizens, they can’t come legally.

President Biden has not suddenly ended America’s immigration prohibition and opened up U.S. borders to almost anyone who wants to come (as was largely America’s immigration policy from 1776 to 1924). Instead, he has far more vigorously enforced immigration prohibition than the law requires, narrowing the few exceptions to the universal ban on legal immigration.

For example, one exception is for those facing persecution in their home countries. Biden has undisputed authority under the law to admit as many refugees from abroad as he wants. The president sets the limit and picks whoever he considers “of concern” to the United States. Yet Biden is on pace to admit the fewest refugees in the history of the U.S. refugee program, fewer than 10,000.

He won’t let refugees in from abroad. But the law explicitly allows refugees to ask for asylum at U.S. borders even if they don’t have permission: anyone “who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival … ), irrespective of [their legal] status, may apply for asylum.” In 1996, Congress clarified that agents “shall refer [any asylum seeker] for an interview by an asylum officer.”

Quote: rxwine

Wiki pages aren't necessarily current. And there were economic effects everywhere a year ago as well.

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COLOMBO, July 5 (Reuters) - A year after angry Sri Lankans stormed the president's residence and forced his ouster during a meltdown of the economy, the island's streets are calm, there are no serpentine queues at fuel stations and hours-long power cuts have ended.

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Was Sri Lanka ever an economic model to begin with? I don't think so.

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33 million acres have burned in Canada this year. Average is 5.6 million per year.

Quote: DoubleGold

Nature uses fire for the soil's health (potash aka potassium).

It can also eliminate the competition for nutrients and make the remaining plants healthier.

One example is bio-char (via pyrolysis), so microbes have nice homes to breed and eliminate the bad critters.

Farmers even do prescribed burns, which goes along good with livestock nitrogen.

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There were Indian tribes that did controlled burns. Forest fires happened long before the global warming scam was started. To keep blaming them on "global warming" appeals to those of low intellectual curiosity, though.

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Exactly.


I was just studying folks that were copying the native tribes in regards to controlled fire.


I'm hesitant to use that process of fire though.

I think I'd rather use goats and make my own bio-char before spreading it or spray the microbes on the land in a solution.


I used to have a large property and discussed alternatives, including fire.

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Fire must be used with care. But as out of control it is in Canada right now, it will be good for the forests in the long run. All those nutrients will hit the soil and the places will rebirth.

Quote: rxwine

33 million acres have burned in Canada this year. Average is 5.6 million per year.