Vincent J. |Curtis
25 Nov 2018
Re: Our time for action is running out. (Hamilton Spectator 24 Nov 2018)
The article by Dr. Henry Brouwer is just the sort of
fulmination that you would expect from someone new to a problem and filled with
left-wing talking points. A little homework would explain why governments are reluctant to act as he requires and why people are not as panicked about
climate change as he thinks they should be.
In early 1996, in the wake of the Kyoto Treaty, I observed
in the Spectator that the effect of accepting the global warming hypothesis
would amount to requiring the crippling of western economies or the massive
substitution of nuclear power for coal burning electrical generation. The
environmentalists of Kyoto weren’t contemplating expanding nuclear power, and
no politician, whatever he promised, would allow the crippling of his country’s
economy – especially on so tenuous a claim as global catastrophe. Global
catastrophe has be forecasted before.
The goal of crippling western economies is present in the
Paris Accord. It permits unlimited increase of carbon dioxide emissions
by China and India, which together emit 37 percent of the total emissions
already. Asking why China and India get a pass draws accusations of
racism for requiring these backward economies to be held back as western
economies remain advanced.
And there it is. The climate change game is
indistinguishable from an effort to bring the great economic and cultural
success of the west down a few pegs – the anti-anti-communist response to the
immoderate success of the west after the discrediting and then the downfall of
the Soviet empire and Marxist system.
Space prevents my going into detail of how the climate
change game was discredited, but many people understand that it was.
Lip service by politicians will continue as long a climate
change remains a shouting issue, but no politician would accept the crippling
of an economy while he is responsible. Likewise, ordinary people aren’t
going to accept hardship today to prevent something that might or might not
occur eighty years from now.
Sorry Marxists.
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