A Climate Change Corrective

You're a moron. Without science, you would not have your car, your TV, your computer, and most of the things that you have. 

Scientists are the ones that knew about global warming in 1980s and had real solutions to the problem. Right-wing government of the time, Christian fundamentalists, and Texas Oil resisted the truth and prevented what could have been an easy and cheap solution. So now because of these entities we have a much bigger crisis than there should have been.

The problem is precisely with bought entities such as the Texas Oil and the Christian Right. If not for them, this would have been solved a long time ago by implementation of real solutions.

At this point it matters nothing to what extent solutions are put in place by private entities or by governments for as long as it gets done.

1. While there have been climate changes before, at no time in measured history was there more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there is now, nor have the oceans been as acidic as they are now. This is positive proof of what global warming scientists have known: That vastly raising carbon emissions while at the same time cutting down the trees that absorb it is a disaster, and not only because it changes the climate.

2. Conversion to clean energy is in fact very economically viable and will create many jobs during construction while creating prosperity over the long term as inefficient and wasteful technologies are replaced with ones that are more sound and more economical. It is an equivalent of converting from candles to electricity. It will boost prosperity, not cost prosperity. 

3. There is nothing morally relative about changing to viable technological solutions that will make it possible for people to have everything they have now, and much more, while vastly reducing the cost to the planet and to the future generations. This is a moral positive, in a very absolute sense.

The arguments above are similar to those of the Luddites. They thought that mechanization of industry would cost everyone their jobs. What it did instead was create giant prosperity that allowed people to have much better jobs and a much higher standard of living. The same with implementation of high-technology solutions in energy sector, the added benefit being that the planet will last far longer and that there will be a better world for future generations to enjoy.

The idea that business builds prosperity whereas the government doesn't is simply not true to reality. Without science - a government-funded, vastly Democratic, endeavor - most of what American business sells would not exist, and American GDP would be a fraction of what it is now. Government-built Interstate and roads make possible large-scale commerce, and without them American GDP would likewise be far less than it is now. The Internet that you use, and that has been the backbone of vast rise in business productivity in America and worldwide, was also a government project. American government is responsible for far more of American prosperity than way too many people in America are willing to admit. 

One would not refer to people who care about the future of the planet as hysteric if one were to study the facts, and also if one were to use common sense. You raise carbon emissions while cutting down trees that absorb it, there is vast rise in CO2 that has nowhere to go except oceans and atmosphere. It goes in the oceans, it makes them acidic and kills what lives there. It goes in the atmosphere, it reflects sunlight back to earth and causes all kinds of disastrous climatic events. The last of these have been ongoing and in every part of the world, including America, and at far higher rate than in recorded history. This goes on, glaciers melt, ocean currents get re-routed, coastal areas flood, etc. This carries clear and present danger to hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people, and we will see vast loss of life and property that people have created as well as irreversible damage to many things that people have not created and cannot re-create. It is hard to see how one would not see that as a wrong that requires urgent correction if one possesses any kind of conscience. 

This, once again, was known by scientists as early as 1980s; but conscience of the time had been usurped by people who thought it more morally rightful to make everyone follow the party line of Pat Robertson and hope for an Armageddon in our lifetime while making sure that people's lives were so unbearable that they too would hope for such a thing. So that while fundamentalist Christianity has continued to rail about immorality of science and rapaciousness of the government, it is in fact science and government that has taken the true morally upstanding stance. Providing sustainable, livable world for the future generations is a vastly more righteous stance than hoping for Armageddon, working to bring it about, or standing in the way of sustainability. For people who claim to have family values to inflict on their children a ruin on this scale is an atrocity. And true family values - as well as true principle - demands putting into place real technological solutions to this very real, absolute, moral wrong.

I very much do know what I want done. I want implementation of high-technology, high-intelligence, high-progress clean energy solutions that will fulfil all of people's present energy needs and more while vastly reducing burden on the planet. I happen to be privy to one such technology and have posted links to it on this forum a number of times. In case you missed it, here it is again:

http://www.adda-enterprises.com/HTNwebsite/home.htm

That  private industry firms are finally working to reduce greenhouse gases shows that industry leaders are more honest and more intelligent than global warming deniers. The deniers can no longer claim that the government supports their beliefs, and they can no longer claim that business supports their beliefs, so they make up conspiracy theories about both business and government, e.g. the loony "New World Order" claims of Alex Jones. The constituency behind that is the true danger to America. Obama is nowhere close to being, as  these people claim him to be, a Hitler; Alex Jones however very much is.

I am quite certain that my carbon footprint is less than yours. And I have a family of five. I have no guilty conscience on this matter because I have been doing a lot to correct this problem. Whereas American Right has been standing for decades in the way of constructive solutions. If America listened to Gore in the first place, we would by now be all enjoying the benefits of high-technology clean energy solutions. It was right-wingers that shouted him down in the first place and are continuing to do the same.

Yes, fundamentalist Christianity has very much been a large part of the problem. Not only have they convinced people to disregard scientific fact and see scientists as fools and sinners and UN as an anti-American force, but their politicians such as Inhofe have been the most aggressive among the deniers of global warming. Fundamentalist Christianity has a lot to answer for, and no amount of wishing for Armageddon or blaming liberals will alter that fact.

http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/

http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/