Get ready, folks. Instead of going to war over “oil”, we’re going to go to war over the “climate change”. The Telegraph:
Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.
Give me a break. If there is a climate change problem caused by man it is because of governments not enforcing property rights. An adequate enforcement of property rights prevents misuse of resources, conserves for the future, and does not infringe on the right of others to do business and most efficiently serve the needs of consumers. Laissez-faire capitalism is a win for everyone. A lack of enforcement of property rights, like we saw in the Industrial Revolution, can lead to mass pollution and blackening the skies. Regulation was not the answer, but instead enforcement of property rights. Sadly, this was not recognized and now the State has more power than ever before over the economy.
But, to get back on topic, I am preparing for the Climate Wars!
Talk of climate change causnig political unrest has been building for some time. It’s an argument used by those who want to turn climate change into a national security issue, and thus give it more political weight. I do think it is reasonable to assume climate change that hurts agricltural productino in a few regions in the world will create political tension–look what’s happening in third world countries now that the price of food has gone up. But it’s not going to start WW III.
The countries most concerned about preventing war are the most concerned about the climate, I should have mentioned that.
Being the Global Warming gang say science derived from collection points like this one is irrefutable, will they be shocked when the current solar cycle puts us in a deep freeze. In that case, the ‘climate war’ might indeed become an oil war.
Maybe Mr Gore can go visit the sun and tell them about how their SUVs and power plants will cause their destruction.
Every living organism affects its environment. You can argue that when you get done refuting gravity. They consume resources and emit waste products that are toxic to themselves. (Or else there would be no reason to emit them.) The more successful an organism is, the more it affects its environment. These changes can be beneficial in the short term, but any organism that becomes dominant risks changing the environment to the extent that the environment eventually becomes toxic to them. Then a new organism that was marginal may be positioned to take advantage of that new environment.
It ain’t politics, there’s no hidden agenda, it’s just the reality of life forms. It’s neither good nor bad, pessimistic or optimistic. It just is.
Climate change isn’t a problem, it’s a symptom. Over-population is a problem. 6.5 billion humans are well past the red line, we’ll throw a rod or spin a bearing sooner or later.
Climate change deniers and the tree huggers who think we can tweak our way out of it are equally foolish. There’s more than enough superstitious bad science on both sides. Both sides rely on extrapolation, and anyone who stayed awake during high school science knows that extrapolation is a statistically invalid tool used only to deceive, never to illuminate. Countering one lie with a bigger one works in politics, but not in science.
Population control violates our hard-coded drive to reproduce. We do not have the ability to act on the knowledge that what was once an aid to the survival of the human race is now a detriment. We will reproduce & affect our environment until we become extinct or marginalized and another life form moves into the position of dominance for a while.
As Ed Grimley says: “We’re as doomed as doomed could be.” That’s not a bad thing, nor is it a good thing. It’s just a thing. We’re just another organism in a long line that has had it’s time on the main stage. I give us another millenium, tops.
Ever hear George Carlin’s routine called ‘The Planet is Fine’; a lot of truth in that piece and funny to boot.
I figure long past a millennium; if we have any brains at all, we’ll be have permanent presence on other planets by then.