Setting Limits, Part II

BEING UPSET WITH, or even disliking people who deny the reality of hauman made climate change is not only not unreasonable, it is appropriate. So is suggesting that such people, whether they know it or not, are borderline traitors, if not completely. This is because of the simple fact that for more than twenty years, the United States Department of Defense has identified human-made climate change as the single greatest threat to American national security. And they aren't making this up. There is a reason why this is so. Now, think about it. What do you call a person who refuses to acknowledge even the existence of the greatest threat to his or her country? A coward? Or, a shirker of one's patriotic duty, if nothing else, correct? Reversing climate change is a desperate necessity for the future survival of life on Earth, and to accomplish it is going to require maximum effort of as many people as possible. Climate change denial is the way conservatives justify their conservatism. Perpetuating corporate capitalism and the fossil fuel industry capitalist system makes perfect sense, if it does no damage to the planet. But not only does it damage the planet, it is going to destroy the planeet, if we don't do something, starting now. Conservative politicians think they are being quite clever by advocating an all in on all energy source strategy, because by so doing they are tolerating development of wind energy and solar enerty, which they think makes them environmentally aware and enlightened. But the opposite is true. Anyone who advocates the continued use and all out exploitation of fosssil fuels, including oil, coal, and natural gas, is effectively advocating the suicide of the human species. Until we can figure out to remove carbon from the atmosphere in meamingful amounts, we must cease and desist all fossil fuel consumption, immediately if not sooner. Conservatism by its nature resists change, and resistance to change is death to humanity, and to all life on Earth. The changes we must make are drastic, fundamental. There simply is no logner even the shadow of a doubt that climate change is real, and is caused by human beings. Stange as that may seem or sound, its reality. The notion that humanity is far too weak and puny to have any meaningful impact on nature is simply dead wrong, absurd. Consider what would happen to the planetary eco system if every nuclear bomb in the world were exploded at once. We, and all other life on Earth, would soon become extinct. We have the power to do that, and to do much else, like significantly alter the weather, the climate, the flow of rivers, and the creation of huge new, man made lakes. Humankind has already had a huge, comprehensive impact on this planet's ecosystem, demonstrably. Merely because over the past several decades many different people have expressed many different opinions about climate change does not mean that all views expressed are of equal value, truth, or accuracy. For decades the people who have warned us about global warming have been correct, with facts to prove their warning. And, over the same period of time, decades, the people who have argued that cliamte change ia a hoax, or isn't caused by humans are uneducated in science, and their reasoning is based on false assumptions and false facts, with twisted, incorrect reasoning. Every time. If only we had all listened to the scientists from the beginning. We must listen to them now, if it isn't already too late.