The rich world's policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear: millions will die
What a ridiculous crock of nonsense.
George Monbiot
Tuesday May 1, 2007
The Guardian
He should change his name to George Moonbat..
A large dose of reality is sorely needed here, but first, a short digression. I've never understood the need of the vast majority of humans to embrace religion, whether of the supernatural sort or any of the secular statist flavors.
Apropos the subject at hand, it's interesting, as others have pointed out, how many worshippers of the thoroughly discredited Church of Red have morphed into rabid followers of the Church of Green.
Anyway, here's reality. All the Kyoto Treaties, Prius cars, Sheryl Crowe uni-paper butt wipes, Algore movies, bio this and eco that, et cetera, ad nauseam, are going to accomplish exactly zero in affecting global climate changes.
If one believes (as green worshippers do and I don't) that human produced greenhouse gas emissions will cause imminent and catastrophic global consequences, then what choices to pursue narrow down to just these..
Fact #1: To lower CO2 emissions enough to revert to pre industrial atmospheric levels would necessitate throttling the world economy to such an extreme extent that many more than George Moonbat's millions would die as a result.
Fact #2: If and when policies are implemented beyond the touchy feely, useless nonsense currently being promulgated by green church members (see above), policies that severely cut not only emissions, but peoples standards of living, an inevitable backlash will occur.
Fact #3: There are currently no magic bullets to meaningfully decarbonize civilizations energy requirements enough to affect global climate and there won't be for some decades to come, no matter how much church members, the MSM and politicians pontificate to the contrary.
Fact #4: The ONLY way to substantially lower atmospheric CO2 levels, without destroying the world's economy, is through deploying CO2 capture and sequestration technologies. They do exist. I wonder if and when any flavor of church is going to wake up and start worshipping there.... |
