I had a hard time eating my lunch today. It was a tasty dish of linguine and clams, but it was what I was reading that was making me sick. In the observer there is what could have been a very interesting article had it not been so slanted and full of errors and inconsistencies that it made me not want to eat.
The subject of the article was about our national parks and how park officials are dealing with….well, I’m not quite sure. In one paragraph it was global warming. In the next it was climate change (the buzzword since apparently global warming isn’t happening). Which is it? Global warming or climate change? They couldn’t seem to decide and flip-flopped back and forth between the two.
Sigh…. So I struggled to get through the article, but then they started citing warmest temperatures on record (factually incorrect) for several parks, rising sea levels eating away the costal terrain (factually incorrect), etc.
But…I kept trying. I was able to get as far as mentioning that park officials aren’t quite sure what to do. The general operating procedure for environmental sanctuaries has typically been to let nature take it’s course and not interfere.
But suddenly, this isn’t good enough. The landscape is changing. Species are dying off, or moving out. And of course, it’s all due to climate change or global warming. I’m not sure which, if you go by the article.
So now, if you are a greenie you may not like what I have to say (not that the first part of this hasn’t already got your hackles up).
Climate change has been happening for billions of years. Guess what? It will continue to happen for billions of years. Many of us like to think of California as a beautiful paradise with oceans, giant redwoods, and luscious green fields…..but it wasn’t always this way. Over the span of a few million years, a significant portion of CA was transformed from desert to the forests that inhabits it today. Some of CA is still desert. And do you think that the species of animals that inhabited some of those original deserts and swamps are still there now that the redwoods are growing? Of course not. They moved on. They adapted, or they died off. This was not man’s doing, but nature’s doing. The natural evolution of life on our planet.
Look people, this is a natural occurrence of our planet. I’m not trying to convince you that people can’t or don’t have an impact. They certainly can. And ultimately we are also part of this natural system.
But part of the problem is that now people are not only trying to stop or significantly reduce man’s impact (not a bad thing) to the environment but those same people are now impacting the environment just by trying to “save” it from itself, or what might otherwise be a perfectly normal step in climate change and evolution.
The environment was not meant to be static. Stop thinking of it in such a limited capacity as the scope of recent history and the near future.
And do you really want to make a difference? Then stop breeding. That’s right, you heard me. Stop breeding. Stop having so many freaking kids. Stop letting illegals pour into the country by the millions. Stop trying to save every single person on this planet that probably shouldn’t be here due to evolution.
OMG! What am I saying? How can I be so cruel?
It’s simple…. For every human being in our country, or on the planet for that matter, we feel that we must provide the basic necessities of life. That pretty much comes down to a handful of things:
Food
Water
Shelter
Medical treatment
In order to provide food we must transform the landscape to provide the food in the form of crops or farms (animals, fish, etc.).
In order to provide water we must damn the rivers, change their flow, and drain them. This also plays a role in providing food.
In order to provide shelter we must cut trees, mine for gravel and other minerals (bricks, concrete, steel).
In order to provide medical treatment we must again harvest certain chemicals, we must manufacture chemicals, and we must also test those chemicals.
And somehow we have to have education in order to teach people how to farm, irrigate, build and treat people.
And once all that is done, there must be a system in place to transport all of these goods and people from one area to another (our infrastructure)....
Why? Because there are too many freaking people.
I know, I know. I’m a bastard. But it’s quite simple.
Forget renewable energy, forget hydrocarbons for a moment and think about the very basic principles of why we have to have that stuff in the first place. It’s because we have to alter our planet to accommodate the people.
So if you really want to do something to “save the planet” then stop breeding, stop trying to save everyone, and stop participating in a world that requires being altered to support everyone. Can you do it?
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