Making the crazy crazier

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Apr 24

H.L. Menken said that a newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier.  The Dog’s Nest Dispatch certainly lives down to that standard, particularly with regard to climate.  The Dispatch has been full of articles by people who believe that carbon dioxide causes bad weather, and in general is a climate control knob, which Canada controls.  If only Canadians stopped their wicked ways, the world could be saved, is the theme of these pieces.

Let’s set aside for the moment the climate crisis nonsense and focus on the culprit: carbon dioxide.  Canada contributes a mere 1.5 percent of annual global emissions of CO2, while Asia contributes over 60 percent.  The Asian countries, particularly India and China, are increasing their CO2 emissions and are not open to moral leadership from Justin Trudeau.  Canada could disappear, and it would have no impact on CO2 emissions or global temperatures.  And this gigantic fact, which stares in the face every author claiming that Canada simply has to do something, gets completely ignored; and not even the editor asks the authors to address it.

The Dispatch’s dedication to the cause of climate change resembles that towards a religious cult; which, indeed, climate change has become.  In so doing the Dispatch adheres to Menken’s observation of making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

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