Hunter and Malthus

Vincent J. Curtis

9 Aug 2018

Hamilton's small-time academic, Dr. Latham Hunter, professor of "cultural studies and communications," is at it again.  She condemns Ontario's new Premier Doug Ford for betraying her children because he cancelled the cap-and-trade carbon tax regime - fulfilling a campaign promise.  Hunter confesses to saying things to her children that, said by a conservative, would be classed as child abuse by a progressive.  Anyhow, read the piece for the full context of the article below.

RE: Ford’s greatest betrayal of our children

It’s a pity Dr. Latham Hunter didn’t read my submission entitled, “Can Ontario stop global warming?”  She could have saved herself a lot of worry.

Had she read my 1996 piece on the then just concluded Kyoto treaty conference, she might be able to look forward to grandchildren.

However, she has utterly trapped herself in a prison of post-modern progressivism, and refuses to break out of it.

This scientist, over twenty years ago, recognized anthropogenic Global Warming as the post-modernist political farce it was.  Kyoto was that space cadet Al Gore’s baby, and he was into Malthusian catastrophe since the days of Paul Ehrlich and “The Population Bomb” of the 1970s.  This scientist said at the time, based on thermodynamics and elementary logic, that if the earth was getting warmer, then so must the sun.

But since 1998, atmospheric temperature measurements of the earth by satellite have shown no increase.  That twenty year gap in actual warming is why “Global Warming” morphed into climate change.  It’s hard to argue a cause-effect relationship between man’s activity and warming when the effect is not observed even though the cause is present and active.  The earth isn’t going to turn into Venus because of Western civilization.

Hunter should, just for laughs, try reading and refuting the other side of the argument.  Condemning the other side as not worth listening to because they are sexist/racist/homo-trans-Islamophobic and socially conservative leaves the intellectual muscles flaccid, and prevents one from learning something new.

A thought for Hunter:  was this world of sex that she finds so challenging to children created by social conservatives or by progressive post-modernism?  A question:  are you really that indifferent as to whether you have grandchildren, or not?  If you are that indifferent, why do you pretend to care about what will be happening to the earth 80 years from now?  You will be dead, and your children would be in their 90's.

Hunter should have more faith in the Western society that brought us to the high level of success we enjoy, and that is expanding into the third world.  In eighty years, the world will still be here and so will advanced, western civilization.

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