WTF is wrong with carrying an iPhone while protesting against coal?
Aidan,
Do you really need to ask ?

"WTF is wrong with carrying an iPhone while protesting against coal?"

Nothing.

In fact it makes it much easier to identify the hypocrites.

Come on Aidan, deserts are the quickest to consume the artifacts of man. Just a couple of good sand storms can obliterate a village.

Hasbeen,
I was careful to specify "arid environments" rather than deserts.
Indeed many arid environments are fragile precisely because of the risk of turning them into deserts. Desertification is a very difficult (though not impossible) process to reverse.

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individual and mhaze,
Yes, I really need to ask.

I'm surmising that you share the runner-level delusion that the kids want to send us back to the pre-coal age rather than use 21st century technology to solve the problem.

Is that what you're assuming?
And if not, mhaze, what hypocrisy are you referring to?

Yes, I really need to ask.
Aidan,
That's a most disillusioning reply ! It's really spoiling my day !

Just had a tour over a cattle station in Queensland. Things are tough on the land, sure, but the owners of this station poo-pooed the idea that climate change has anything to do with it, and they had the familiy's records going back to 1863 to prove it. Cyclical conditions on the property are no different now that they were 156 years ago.

Listen to real people, not to lying activists, climate 'modellers' and rent-seekers on the prod for more of YOUR money for grants.