The
climate is changing, anyone who says it is not is either a fool or oblivious to
the history of the planet, or perhaps both.
This is a subject of great discussion by those most ill equipped to deal
with it, scientists and politicians. Some
scientists believe this change is caused by the 7 billion plus people on the
earth and this feeds a position by some politicians it is mostly caused by US
and European conservatives. Other scientists are not so sure it is just the hot
air coming from politicians but perhaps some other natural force like volcanoes
may somehow have a role in causing it. This makes those
very same conservatives dig in their heels, light their cigars, and say such
stupid things as, “I don’t see the climate changing; it was just a simple storm,
and besides you have no proof!”
As
our climate does change, the question before us is do we think we can affect
that change? There are those who argue
we must, and the solution is to stop putting all the industrial pollution in
the air, then the hole in the ozone layer will close up, the polar ice caps
will refreeze and we will be just peachy keen!
So we should abandon all petrochemical production, coal burning, and
petroleum based pollution devices like cars, trains, boats and planes. Or as a compromise we must limit them so
severely that things like solar and wind power return to their rightful place
on top of the power grid.
For
a while nuclear was viewed as clean energy since it didn’t have any nasty
petrochemical thingies, but it does have an annoying tendency when it fails to
create a radio active area where turtles have two heads and deer glow in the
dark. So until we can come up with Mr.
Fusion, atomic power that has got to take a back seat to good ol’ Mr. Wind, Mrs. Sun, Ms.
Geo-thermal, and perhaps Mr. Waves. So how
do we return to those bygone days where we were not so dependent on finding
dinosaur burial grounds?
To
do this we clearly need a bigger government, with more right thinking scientists,
bureaucrats and politicians to determine the best number of pollutants to allow
into the air, and to fund the creation of better solar, wind or other alternative
power sources for our planes, trains, boats and cars. We also need increased regulatory guidance so
we know when and where we are allowed to travel, what form of travel we are to
use and how much we must pay for all this.
Or
is there some alternative? H’mmmm I
wonder?
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