THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 76, March 8, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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SAVING THE EARTH?
By Alan Caruba
THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR TALK ABOUT "SAVING THE EARTH": JUST WHO DO THESE PSYCHOTIC
IDEOLOGUES THINK THEY ARE? COEQUAL COMPONENTS OF THE ALMIGHTY DEITY? IF HUMAN EFFORT
IS REQUIRED TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM GLOBAL WARMING & OTHER CATACLISMIC EVENTS NOW & IN THE FUTURE,
HOW DID THE EARTH MANAGE TO AVOID DESTRUCTION DURING THE MANY BILLIONS OF YEARS IT EXISTED &
EXPERIENCED NUMEROUS CATACLISMIC EVENTS PRIOR TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES? THE
LIMITED OR NONEXISTENT CAPACITY OF HUMANS TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF NATURE
FULL STORY:
Every time I hear someone say something about “saving the Earth,” I want to say: “Are you out of your mind?”
The Earth is some 4.5 billion — that’s billion with a "b" — years old. How did it ever manage to exist without us
human beings? How did it survive ice ages, meteor impacts, and all the other stuff that went on before homo sapiens
decided to climb down out of the trees and walk upright?
If human beings are responsible for “global warming,” how did the Earth manage to get through various earlier stages,
such as the Permian, the Triassic, the Jurassic, the Paleocene, the Eocene, the Oligocene, the Miocene, the Pleistocene
and our era, the Holocene, which reaches back a mere 10,000 years, a period that matches up with the ending of the
last major Ice Age.
One of the distinguishing features of these and other earlier periods of Earth’s history is the repeated evidence of
mass extinctions. Since humans weren’t around to take the blame for them, what did cause them? There is evidence
that it was the result of magnetic reversals.
For far too long, I have been listening to people who are absolutely convinced that human beings are “destroying” the
Earth. Three quarters of the Earth is under water. Oceans are the largest part of the Earth’s surface. Most of the land is
uninhabitable or not arable. You can’t farm it, and you probably wouldn’t want to live there.
The parts, mostly cities, where human beings congregate range from being vast slums to gleaming towers of commerce
or condos. If you’re wealthy, living in such places can be very enjoyable. If you live in the slum, you hope you can find
a tasty tidbit at the neighborhood garbage dump.
Virtually none of these people, rich or poor, spends a lot of time thinking about “saving the Earth,” unless, of course,
there’s a buck to be made while allegedly doing so.
There’s lots of money to be made these days in “saving the Earth.” If you’re the owner of a solar or wind farm, the
government can’t wait to lavish millions of taxpayer’s — other people’s — dollars on your enterprise. Same holds true if
you make moonshine -- oops, I mean ethanol.
Then, if you’re Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Oscar winner, Grammy winner, winner of the Nashville Bingo Night
Jamboree, you are going to score millions by telling people that the Earth is coming to an end any day now and, to
prevent this, you need to buy the lighter-than-air “carbon credits” he’s selling. The government wants to get in on this
bonanza with a “cap-and-trade” program to limit greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent a global warming that is
not happening.
Meanwhile, other charlatans are busy selling an interest in their carbon sequestration scams or just selling you anything
that comes packaged as “ecological” anything. Paying more for something “Green” just marks you as a chump.
So who are these people kidding when they talk about saving the Earth? YOU!
And who do these people dislike for despoiling Gaia or Mother Earth? YOU!
Neither any of us individually nor all six billion of us collectively can “save the Earth,” but there are a few things we can
avoid doing. At the top of the list is littering. Did you see the photo of the Capitol Mall after everyone got through
celebrating the inauguration of the Anointed One? Ugh.
In fact, that is pretty much the entire list, as far as I am concerned. Don’t litter. Clean up after yourself.
And for those still preaching to other people about saving the Earth, just stop. It makes you look and sound like an idiot.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Alan Caruba is a veteran business, science and political writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National
Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary,
"Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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