I don't care how much shit we burn it won't stop the next ice age.
I agree, and if you are protesting some SIG's use of "global warming" for whatever their agenda is,
neo-luddites who want to stop technology, third world governments and hippie communists who want
to either slow-down the industrial nations or atleast get some shakedown cash, NASA scientists at
budget time, the "wind-energy" factions who want to stop construction on a coal-fired plant, and so
forth, say
that ....
putting up photos of snow in a Southern State in December is not a refutation of the major global climate change that is underway ....
also, and god knows how many times I've tried to get this across to you, become more objective & less emotional in your politics ...
"global warming" is like the "race card" .... from a moralist viewpoint, it is a bad thing, not positive or of benefit to society; from a
political POV, it's just another tool, like radio ads, and Op-Ed pages and hookers with cameras .... I am a realist in that I understand
that the nature of human society is ultimately unsustainable, and has been since we set out on the road of cities and urban centers,
some fifteen thousand years ago ... and altho the exponential rate of technological advances indicate that the saturation point of human
societies on this planet is closer rather than farther, and closing in at an increased rate with every passing second, I'm pretty sure I'll
be dead when the thing starts collapsing, much less actually collapses, so I don't give a fuck .... and if that sounds selfish & such, well
of course it is, but the point is that this is the end result of the current path of human society, and nothing in the world can or will change
it ... so beating your head on the brick wall and wailing and gnashing teeth are useless ...
what is not useless is using these types of issues to further your own agenda in the present - the example I mentioned above is one that
is being used right now, and I support it - we finally got the okay from the State to construct a shit-load of new power distribution lines
in West Texas, which is an immediate Win for my boys, who are getting that Work, and
was a Win for the international corporate
conglomerates that finance the construction of new windfarms who hold massive land leases out here for new projects, but can't
distribute all the power the existing farms are producing, and so can't greenlight new ones .... until the State okayed a coal-fired plant
up by Lubbock, again a Win for some of my boys who will get the construction work and one or two may end up with permanent employment;
new windfarms are shit out of luck, tho ... the coal-fired plant will eat all the new lines and then some ... and personally, while I think
windfarms are a waste of time and money, and not atall feasible for long-term power generation needs, I love the fuckers and want more ...
so when the lawyers went up to Lubbock for the hearings to talk bad about coal, I was right there with them, and when they started talking
about the environmental impact of coal, from the destruction and downstream disease from flat top mining to the air quality when burned, and
the impact of "Green House Gas Emissions", I nodded my old gray head sagely and hollered out "Right On, Brother!" like the good hippie
communist I am ....
is any of it true? who cares? this is politics and there is never any truth in politics; if there was, we'd never get anything done, and the
citizens would recoil in horror and there would be one armed revolution after another and we would fall into a state of perpetual anarchy ....
(which I am not against either, BTW ...)