Fanatical Stupidity is the real problem

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Nov 23

RE: Price of fossil fuels the real problem.  Op-ed by Catherine McKenna. The Hamilton Spectator 6 Nov 23.

You’d think that the editors who turned the Hamilton Spectator into the Dog’s Nest Dispatch would realize that surviving 2024 is of more immediate importance than adapting to some speculative 2100; but no.  They continue to run articles on stupid climate alarmism written by stupid people advocating stupid policies.

Catherine McKenna was once known as Canada’s climate Barbie, for her blonde good looks and empty head.  She didn’t run in the 2021 Federal election, though the then Minister of Environment and Climate Change, as a growing scandal of millions of dollars of unaccounted-for no-bid contracts issued by her department threatened to engulf her reputation. That scandal died with her candidacy.

McKenna proposes a smarter carbon tax.  Her proposal proves she knows nothing about economics, either, as the carbon tax is a tax on an inelastic demand.  People still have to heat their homes in winter and drive to work, and people must do these things practically regardless of the cost to do so.  People will find the money by economizing in other areas; but as we saw in the Maritime carbon tax holiday on home heating oil, even this has limits.

Worrying about climate change is stupid.  Measures that allegedly will prevent it are stupid.  The people advocating such things, by and large, are stupid, or have a financial interest in keeping up the hoax.

What’s the reason the Dispatch, er, the Spectator’s excuse?

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