I have another rant on climate change (sorry) after seeing this article in the SMH
http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/blogs/all-men-are-liars/climate-wars-20130612-2o3fg.html
My Prediction.
As the climate changes vast areas that are currently arid will be transformed into arable useful land. Just as the Sahara desert was once a fertile land of plants and animals so it will be again and just as Antarctica was once covered in vegetation so it will be again.
Land that once stood above sea level will be no more just like the land bridges that once existed across The Bering Straits and down through Asia once existed and towns that once stood along coastlines around the Mediterranean now lie beneath the waves. Fertile parts of continents like America and Europe will become desolate while other continents will become fertile and rich. There will be extinctions just like the extinction of the Mammoth 10,000 years ago while other species will rise and dominate just like mammals over dinosaurs. Poor countries will become powerful and powerful countries will become poor as new areas are opened up for development. There will be mass displacement and migration of people just like our ancestors as they migrated across the globe following the seasons and food tens of thousands of years ago.
And how do I know all this? Because that has been our earth’s history of climate change it’s been going on for millions of years and it continues to this day, it is proven scientific fact. Are we contributing to it to some level? Possibly just like our ancestors probably did as well, but the myth of humans being able to stop it is the real danger in my opinion. We divert billions of dollars into climate change projects while people die around us. Money that could be used to feed millions of starving humans and provide clean drinking water right now are diverted into meaningless projects. What justification is there for such policy? Save the world for future generations, while we let millions of this current generation die? Sacrifice the few for the many, is that it? Is that the world you want to live?
Or will the true outcome of the policy of climate change be far more sinister than that (deliberate of otherwise) - maintain the status quo? Rich and developed countries remain rich and developing and the poor remain poor and undeveloped? The countries that have had the benefit of growing their economies unfettered by climate change policy now dictate that policy and inflicted that policy on those countries that now seek to grow. Is it right that these third world countries must take the responsibility and pay the price for the developed world? Will this be the end result of our climate change policies in the long run?
As I said in the beginning our climate has changed dramatically in the past and it will again. Our climate change policy is like trying to stop a tornado by getting everyone to pay a fee (tax) to stand in a line as it bears on them and blow in the opposite direction in the hope that the insignificant waft we produce will change its direction while the guy who came up with the idea hides in a shelter and uses the money to advertise to get more people to help.
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