There is a reason why so many absurd ideas dominate our national conversation.
Those who write or report are subjected to a culture of cancelation and censorship as never before in American history by the progressive crowd. To keep their jobs on newspapers or television, or on the faculty of educational institutions, many have been forced to comply with ridiculous woke concepts that, in a fair discussion, would be exposed for the nonsense they are.
Consider the sheer foolishness that has become accepted as absolute truth in the nation today, in defiance of clear evidence and common sense.
The idea that you can simply wish into existence that which does not exist dominates radical thinking on climate issues. Someday, perhaps as soon as a half century from now, alternative energy sources sufficient to replace fossil fuels may be invented. But today is not fifty years into the future. The drive to replace existing fuels with wind and solar is a ruinous pipedream. At most, these sources can meet only about 20% of world needs. The total lack of regard for families that will have to choose between heating their homes or buying groceries is a cruelty. Disregarding how this is destroying our national economy and family budgets is callous.
The jihad against fossil fuels and the dismantling of nuclear power plants in the United States and Europe has been an exercise in irrationality. Future historians will marvel how advanced societies devolved into madness.
The reasons cited for doing so have been proven false over and over again. No, the planet is not facing unprecedented warming. Indeed, there has been no appreciable warming for decades. The 1920’s endured hotter temperatures than today. Western droughts have been a factor for millennia. Native American groups have had to occasionally change their locations for thousands of years due to water sources drying up. England in 1066 had warmer temperatures than exist there today. Rome during the reign of the Caesars prospered in hotter climatic conditions. The so-called “proofs” of current global climate change rely on falsified data, most notably the great fraud of the East Anglia research that forms so much of the basis of the current argument. Yes, in some places there have been warmer temperatures, most notably in the Arctic. But the climate Cassandras don’t want you to know that the last two winters in Antarctica have been some of the coldest on record.
A lot of powerful people have made a lot of money from all this. From politically-connected companies that have taken massive amounts of dollars from Washington, to politicians like Al Gore and John Kerry, the only thing heated up has been their bank accounts. Barack Obama warned us all that our shorelines would soon be flooded, and then purchased an $11 million dollar home on the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
Some have pointed to intense hurricanes, particularly, as “proof,” especially Katrina which devastated New Orleans. But at the time that city was founded, local Native Americans warned that the site was inappropriate due to, you guessed it, periodic major hurricanes.
There is an even larger issue than disagreements about climate change allegations or the viability of alternative energy sources. That is the arrogance of insisting that those “heretics” “denying” the left’s positions be censored and cancelled, an increasingly common tactic of the progressive crowd.
Somehow, in the 21st Century, our public discourse resembles that which took place during the Salem Witch Trials or the Spanish Inquisition. Rather than honestly reviewing contrary ideas or evidence that disputes the establishment point of view, our current media moguls and political leaders in Congress and the White House simply seek to figuratively burn their opponents at the stake.
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