Just Drop It Why Dontcha!!

This whole climate nonsense is crazy, just plain nuts. It distracts hugely from issues that are really important like world hunger and poverty and the lack of human freedom around the world. Instead of focusing on real problems we concoct Chicken Little nonsense that has no factual basis in reality like global warming or DDT panic or all the other little crisis mongering that have marked my life. It's almost as if there is a regular industry in crisis manufacture. Some come and go rather quickly, but I've become pretty jaded after about the tenth or so crisis that fails to materialize but is used to muster panic and taxes. Obama was giving a speech and saying we can unite to fight whatever, and I thought "just more rah-rah hurry up and do something stupid." SEE HERE

Let's take a quick look ... hmmm... fossil fuels ... as long as you burn them cleanly they produce water and CO2. CO2 is not a pollutant nor is water. All the panic is sheer balderdash. So except that we're going to run out sometime in the next thousand years or so (counting coal) the only fundamental problem is that as they become more scarce they become more expensive. Enter nuclear ... we should be investing in nuclear to find better designs and easier ways to contain or even eliminate nuclear waste. It's a stupid idea that nuclear is not clean and that the waste can't be eliminated. I'd much rather live next to a shielded nuclear source that's passivated than a container of potassium cyanide gas that isn't maintained. Solar may work out ... after all the sun runs the whole show. It's a good deal that it comes up each morning because if it didn't we'd be history in short order. The other thing to think about is how much energy you really need?

If we take advantage of all the communication technology we have we can reduce the consumption of many energy sources so that they last a lot longer. Everything is a trade off, but creating crises, especially phony ones is just a way to eliminated thinking so you can get people to do otherwise dumb things. Stop just reacting and start critically examining the claims before reacting. You're being manipulated.

HERE's AN INTERESTING YOUTUBE
I don't necessarily endorse the views in the video, but I think the skepticism about crises in general is healthy. All crises should receive serious debate and not be used as an excuse for rushing to judgment. AN EARLIER BRAMBLE