Environmental Armageddon?

Once you decide to engage in a discussion about ‘global warming’, you have already lost the argument. ‘Global warming’ is the magician’s parlor trick which compels one to focus on the empty flourish of the right hand while the left executes the prestige.

‘Global warming’, therefore functions primarily as a diversion and secondarily as a scare tactic. Perhaps Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center said it best as far back as 1997: ‘Global warming’ he wrote, is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the people of the world, bar none. Those who have been fighting against the green agenda have been warning that modern-day environmentalism has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting the environment. Rather, it is a political movement led by those who seek to control world economies, dictate development, and redistribute the world's wealth." Since then, there have been many others who have come to the same conclusion. The major media, however, totally in the tank with re-distributionist policies, have so far refused to give equal time to ‘global warming’ skeptics, leaving the impression among the weak-minded that environmental Armageddon is perilously close at hand.

People who subscribe to the ‘global warming’ hoax generally fall into one of two categories: those who are genuinely afraid that the earth will collapse into an uninhabitable fireball and those who exploit the hoax for their own political advantage. President Obama easily fits the latter template. He has often spoken about his intention to redistribute the world’s riches more equitably. It is no wonder that he also supports the environmentalists’ calls to action (Cap and Trade).

Michael Jackson, on the other hand, also is said to have supported the environmental movement. He was persuaded to write, “Global Warming: The Earth Song” recently. It is a heartrending plea for people to come together and save the planet. From what has recently emerged about the ill-fated super star, there can be little doubt which of the two categories outlined above he belonged to.

Given what can be expected should ‘global warning’ zealots gain the upper hand in terms of immediate wholesale dislocation leading to simmering social unrest and culminating almost certainly in armed conflict, I choose to place my bet on ‘global warming’ as being something we can live with. A preview of the alternative is currently being played out on the streets and rooftops of Tehran.