David Brin on Climate Change
David Brin has a nice post up where he doesn't exactly refute climate change deniers, leaving that to the mounds of scientific evidence, but sheds light on their manipulation of facts to keep the status quo. The whole post is worth the read for those interested, but it is the last point that really hits home.
Still, ponder this -- it has already been proved repeatedly, that humanity is capable of affecting ecosystems, atmospheric systems (I grew up in LA) and even (in the case of the ozone hole) planetary systems. Thus, it is simply mind-boggling that a concerned majority of world scientists should have to prove their worries valid, beyond all doubt...
...before humanity decides to take simple precautions THAT MAKE SENSE ANYWAY.
10) And that is the final kibosh. The devastator. The ultimate eviscerator of this horrific mass-cult.
Because they never make clear exactly what it is that they are afraid of!
What? Efficiency?
Let me reiterate.
That is what it boils down to. Fear and loathing of... efficiency.
It is what Al Gore, the world’s scientific “consensus” community, the community of nations and all the sensibly worried folks out here are talking about.
Simply putting efficiency at or near the top of our civilization’s urgent agenda.
Investing in research, tweaking some incentives, adjusting some market parameters (that were already meddle-skewed anyway, in wrong directions)...
... all with the goal that we should ...
...get... more... from... less!
And that last part is the real mind-boggler, when you stop to think about it. That all of these polemical maneuvers and illogical arguments and contradictions and hypocrisies should be aimed at diverting us from becoming more productive while depending on fewer resources.
Oh, what has happened to conservatism?
I've used this argument myself, though not so eloquently put. In simple terms, what you believe about Climate Change or Global Warming is irrelevant. Efficiency is an end in itself. Good for business, and good for the environment. So much a win-win situation that I'm sure our governments are going to have be dragged into realizing it, kicking and screaming.
