After reading a reference to HAWAII by James A. Michener in a recent book entitled THE LAST KINGDOM by Steve Berry, I went back to the old classic that I’d read in the late 1980s.
The book begins millions of years ago when the ocean that we now call Pacific Ocean rises and submerges dozens of islands that we now call Hawaii.
At the time, there were no human beings, no burning of fossil fuels, no greenhouse gas emissions, and no ICE automobiles spewing smoke. Why did the ocean engulf islands, then? After all, according to climate change activists, these are the causes of climate change that will result in, among other catastrophes, oceans engulfing lands in the near future.
To speculate an answer to this question, I need to go back memory lane a bit.
In the 1980s, they told us that oil reserves would get depleted by 2007, and exhorted us to conserve energy, lest we return to the ice age. At the time, we found it funny that petroleum companies like BPCL and Shell ran ads telling people to consume LESS fuel, which went against their fiduciary duty to sell more fuel and maximize their revenues and profits. 2007 came and went. There was no sign of oil reserves getting depleted.
@VivekGRamaswamy: 40 years ago they told us an ice age was imminent. Now they tell us that the global warming is an existential threat to humanity. Which is it? Neither.
Then the narrative changed to emissions, greenhouse gas, ozone layer depletion, etc. But the much feared Global Warming never happened: In fact, winters got colder in cold countries. I called that Global Extreming at the time.
They then changed their narrative to Climate Change. When people pointed out that winters are becoming colder in cold countries, they dismissed that as Weather Change, and asserted that it didn’t contradict climate change theory. But, when summers became warmer in warm countries, they quickly latched on to that as evidence of climate change – even though, by their own logic re. winter, they should be calling this also weather change.
I could go on an on but I hope you get my drift. While oceans may rise and submerge lands from time to time, it’s not due to fossil fuel burning, greenhouse gas, etc. In other words, the danger may be real (though not clear and present) but the root causes and remedies proposed under Climate Change Agenda are flawed.
The climate change agenda is a hoax. https://t.co/ZMMwAVnKfc
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 24, 2023
Why has the climate change agenda hoax been allowed to perpetrate for so long?
The answer to that question lies in the go-to solution of climate change agenda: Consume less energy.
Western countries consumed ginormous amounts of energy on their way to industrialize, grow their economies, and become rich. Now they don’t want developing countries to do the same and pose a threat to their exalted status.
DRAWBRIDGE DIASPORA
Use a ladder to climb up, dunk on the ladder after reaching the top, so that others are discouraged to use the ladder to reach the top and pose a threat to your exalted position.
This is a canonical example of what I call Drawbridge Diaspora Behavior, which is defined in the sidebar on the right.
We can see examples of this behavior every day in the calls for stringent immigration laws from people who have already emigrated successfully; from workers on Green Card waiting list in USA telling students from India not to come to USA citing lack of jobs; to avoid English and speak only Hindi; eschew jargon, etc.
Obviously, rich countries can’t tell poor countries to remain poor. Ergo they’ve created the consume less energy smokescreen. They’re the same: As we can see from the following exhibit, there are literally no low energy consuming rich countries in the world.
An adjacent subterfuge is to exhort India and other fast growing countries to find a better goal than GDP growth.
"We've polluted and become an advanced economy. Now you don't pollute and overtake our GDP" ~ https://t.co/6h9iZJLKRV via @economictimes.
Nice try. Height of Drawbridge Diaspora behavior. Don't fall for it.— Ketharaman Swaminathan (@s_ketharaman) February 19, 2024
We should not fall for this propaganda.
Let’s say some country gets suckered by the climate change agenda and consumes less energy. It will not industrialize. It will remain an agrarian economy. And progressively become poor. Because, as we noted earlier, you can’t become rich if you consume less energy.
Then, one day, the oceans will rise and submerge this country, just as they have been been doing others for millions of years. Let’s say somebody survives this cataclysm. He or she will naturally wonder why the ocean rose and destroyed their country even though they did not burn fossil fuels or emit greenhouse gases.
If they ask around, I’m guessing the Chief Climate Change Scientist of the era will reply as follows:
When ze oceans rise, who knows where zey come down, zat’s not my department.
Hat tip to Tom Lehrer’s song about Wernher von Braun.
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department.
Pollution is definitely a problem, especially automobile pollution on the roads. It causes cough, cold, respiratory diseases, and must be controlled.
Electric vehicle has been accepted as a solution since it has zero emission. But, since EV uses batteries which are charged by conventional sources of power, some people believe that EV merely kicks the pollution problem from urban areas to remote places where fossil fuel-based power plants operate.
Not sure how many people will accept that as a permanent solution to the vehicular pollution problem.