I’m going to do a more extensive post later. However, I was at a loss earlier in the week for a sweet post like this and it magically ended up in my inbox, so I thought that I would pass along some links.
Update: I just ran across an article about this very subject at Justice & Compassion about cooperatives, personal boycotts, and other tactics for combatting waste and injustice
Additionally, my friend Saqi, just went to see the Think Progress preview of the 11th Hour, an indepth documentary about our destruction of our environmental home. Here is the only review posted at IMDB.
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Devil's Advocate // August 12, 2007 at 5:24 am |
You liberals can’t seem to grasp the concept that conservation leads to the deaths of millions of people. People die because Government controls destroy the incentive to produce enough food to feed a growing population.
Your liberal solution, however, is to micromanage the birthrate, which has led to disastrous consequences, as seen in China.
Why not actually read the IPCC report, which has not demonstrated in the slightest that Global Warming is caused by man.
In stead you seek to rely on charlatans like Al Gore, who brainwash you and our youth into believing that climate change has never happened on earth.
Al Gore has single-handedly destroyed a necessary facet of Science: the zealous questioning of scientific hypotheses. Not only does questioning assure accuracy, but it also elevates science itself to a field from which public policy can be based. However, Gore, comedian’s wives, singers, and Leonardo DiCaprio publicly state that the debate is over regarding man-made global warming. As such, we should now make drastic changes that will undoubtedly place an insurmountable economic burden on us all.
Whether or not Global Warming exists, is a problem, and is man-made, should not only be debated, but nothing could be more anti-science than to prevent the questioning of its assertions. Rest assured that whenever you are told that a scientific theory is based on the number of people who agree with its findings, you know you’re being propagandized.
First, let’s examine the data. This entire global warming panic is based on a correlative study, as CO2 goes up or down, so does temperature. (This is the part of Al Gore’s slide show where he says, “Didn’t these [lines] once fit together.”) Well, this doesn’t mean that CO2 causes temperature fluctuations. There could be other variables that cause the temperatures to rise or fall. For example, “swimming pool drowning” and “ice cream sales” are directly correlated; however, this is not because ice cream causes drowning. It is because more people eat ice cream in the summer…More people swim in the summer…More people drown as more people swim.
One thing Al Gore won’t tell you, however, is that an increase in temperature can also cause an increase in CO2. How is this possible?? Well, the oceans give off more CO2 as temperatures rise. Moreover, the oceans give off more CO2 than any human ever could. So what is causing the increase in temperature? Many scientists believe that the Sun’s activity is actually causing an increase in temperature. Wow!! Who would have thought that our Solar system’s greatest source of energy is causing an increase in temperature? Maybe that explains why Mars’ ice caps are melting too.
Furthermore, the Global Warming fanatics are acting like the temperature has never changed on this Earth. Well, we’ve had over five ice ages that came and went without any help from us. There was also the “little ice age” in the middle of the past millennium where people actually ice skated on the River Thames. Then the temperatures rose before the industrial revolution. Imagine that!! In fact, the warm periods before the “Little ice age” were associated with more prosperity because crops could more easily grow. Another added bonus to the Global warming, if it is true, is that CO2 is what makes plants grow (meaning more food to feed the growing population); it is not a pollutant, so this is not surprising at all.
Lastly, whenever you hear someone say the IPCC report states that an overwhelming number of scientists support its findings on man-made Global Warming, let that person know that many of its lead authors don’t agree with its findings and spoke out about the Al Gore’s dishonesty in the Great Global Warming Swindle. The saddest part about this madness is that Al Gore has managed to convince an entire population of people not to question his statements and that there is overwhelming agreement. Nothing could be further from this inconvenient truth.
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compassioninpolitics // August 12, 2007 at 7:51 am |
I think we should have a personal politics of conservation so we don’t have to be dependent on oil, unless you think oil dependency is a good thing. At least five overwhelmingly compelling reasons come to mind: 1) So that we don’t have to have gas at almost $3 a gallon 2) So we don’t have to have military interventions and perhaps even drafts based on oil dependency 3) So we don’t get into nuclear tipped scuffles with Russia, China, the Middle East, and terrorists 4) So 30,000 people a year don’t die from co2 fumes. 5) So the oil barons don’t control our politics and our budgets, making us beholden unto countries like China based on our growing debt. This control and corruption of our politics is not the kind of fair and just democracy we talk about when we talk about the virtues of our Constitutional democracy. Even in a world where you are 100% correct the greenhouse effect is not true, all five of the above make legitimate sense.
Further, your assertions here are interesting, but I fail to see the connection between a personal politics conservation (ie me not buying an SUV and instead helping solve disease in developing nations by giving the money to Unicef or World Vision) The categorical best way to avoid the very things you fear and might talk about on your blog is by changing our personal politics on the issue so that government doesn’t have to intervene.