Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
It doesn’t happen often … some would say not often enough … but I’m speechless.
Truly, I don’t know what to say about this. I can only shake my head and point and laugh. They are truly getting desperate.
w.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
It doesn’t happen often … some would say not often enough … but I’m speechless.
Truly, I don’t know what to say about this. I can only shake my head and point and laugh. They are truly getting desperate.
w.
You guys in the USA can afford to bury your heads in the sand as the water will cause death, disease & destruction in a lot of other places before it reaches you and you can afford to move. It’s the most vulnerable people on the planet that will suffer first and are already suffering.
Surely even with your closed minds you can see that a finite resource like fossil fuels will run out one day and economies based on burning the stuff are ultimately doomed to failure. Probably not in your lifetime though, which seems to render all arguments invalid as far as you are concerned. You’re happy to let your grand-children, or people in far-off lands, pay the price for your selfish attitude and hedonistic, egotistical lifestyle. It’s just a shame that the God that a lot of you profess to believe in doesn’t actually exist to pass judgement on you. As long as you have had a good life, who cares, right?
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Doctor Demotropolis,
Spoken like a true Malthusian Luddite.
The truth is that the world’s poorest bear most of the human suffering inflicted by the enviro-dictators [that’s your side, you know], while you are personally untouched, except for the marginal energy cost increases on the well to do.
How nice for you to be able to preach from the comfort of your relatively wealthy position. You can afford a rise in your energy bills; but the one-third of the world that lives on less than $2 a day is facing catastrophe. What do you care? You’ve got yours, right? And you’re ‘saving the planet’, which takes priority over people, who are just collateral damage in your plans, right?
It takes a really smug, superior, uncaring attitude, and a complete lack of conscience and humanity, to support policies that cause such massive suffering for the poorest members of society. Why do you do it? Do you really hate the world’s poor that much? To use your own despicable phrase: ‘as long as you have a good life, who cares?’ Right?’
The world’s poor require cheap energy to allow them to lift themselves out of abject poverty. But the enviro crowd obstructs them at every opportunity. Why do you people do that to them?
Really, why?
Dr. D., I spent a good portion of my life working in developing countries with the poorest of the poor. I know what harms the poor all too well. As a result, when you claim that the climate is going to harm the poor, my choices are to laugh or cry. Generally, faced with that choice, I laugh, the other option goes nowhere. If the dreaded “global warming” occurs, you guys yourselves say it will mostly occur in the extra-tropics, in the winter, at night. If you think that the poor people in say Vladivostok are worried about slightly warmer winter nights, think again. You can see why I point and laugh at people making those kinds of idiotic claims.
The truth is that increased energy costs resulting from the AGW alarmists like yourself are already harming the poor. In fact, you guys have created a whole new kind of poverty, “fuel poverty”, that didn’t even exist when I was a young man. Pensioners in the UK are freezing over the winter because of your insane “green” policies, while you give sanctimonious lectures.
And after doing that, after raising the prices on the very fuel that is the lifeblood of the poor, you turn around and accuse us of harming the poor? Get real. When gas prices go through the roof, it’s not Warren Buffett and the 1% that feel the bite. It’s the poorest end of society that can no longer heat their houses. It’s the poorer class that can no longer afford the gas to get to work. Hell of a good job there, Doctor.
But you, Dr. D., you ignore all of that and claim the high moral ground. You even want to lecture others about what hurts the poor, when your actions make it abundantly clear that you are clueless about the subject. I can think of no more appropriate moment to repeat that old, old saying … physician, heal thyself.
w.