LETTER TO THE EDITOR / CLIMATE CHANGE SHOULD NOT BE A PARTISAN ISSUE
Roger C. Kostmayer
Why aren’t we listening, and acting to save ourselves?
Nonpartisan scientists and nonpartisan military leaders are clear and unambiguous. The earth is warming and sea levels are rising. It is an undeniable fact, yet as our world is racing like lemmings toward catastrophe, our country is actually pulling out of international organizations charged with reducing the damage and reversing the trends. And some politicians are even denying this terminal reality, by explaining they’re “not scientists”.
Increasingly deadly weather; ineluctable floods, droughts, lack of food and potable water; forced migrations around the world; and the resulting military conflicts, are all on the horizon. Every day we fail to take the necessary steps, inevitability increases.
At this stage, the only solution is American leadership and international cooperation. That requires enlightened American politicians with courage and conviction which, in turn, means that if you’re in High School or on a walker and hope to have a safe life for you, your children and grandchildren – you need to get active and vote for candidates who pledge to solve this looming disaster.
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For once I agree with Kostmayer, but only to the point of the earth’s natural changes. The real problem is chemical poisons being flooded into our atmosphere and water. Oil and chemicals are the culprits, but as always Follow the Monye! Since man fell out of that tree, nothing mattered but material gain and the toys to entertain his ego. Monye is the only God for sure! RIP Earth!
“The earth is warming and sea levels are rising.”
Yet
“China keeps building infrastructure on disputed islands in South China Sea.”
“China says the artificial islands in the Spratlys with their airstrips and military installations are mainly for civilian purposes and to safeguard fishing and maritime trade.”
There are 8 PRC artificial islands with 3 being over 1 square mile.
But
Oh I know, we shrewdly got the PRC to spend billions of yuan to build these island just above sea level so they will be inundated!
“vote for candidates who pledge to solve this looming disaster.”
Yet, I guess it will be an underwater theme park and mall…
June 2018 “American Dream, the country’s largest shopping mall, is coming to Miami”
“The ambitious $4 billion plan comes from Triple Five Group who developed Minnesota’s Mall of America which held the title of the largest mall in the world when it opened 35 years ago. The Canadian-based firm acquired the land for American Dream in 2015 and was granted zoning approval by Miami-Dade county commissioners last month.”
“Every day we fail to take the necessary steps, inevitability increases.”
“There’s a sucker born every minute” P. T. Barnum
Idiom: “a fool and his money are soon parted”
There was Climate Change until the USA stopped paying for it under Pres Trump. If it was such a world cataclysmic event, I would expect other nations to pick up the money slack. And many can afford to!
France produces the majority of its’ electricity via nuclear power for domestic production while exporting solar and wind for EU credits.
Germany, denuclearized, went solar and windmills and now has to subsidize domestic industry and commerce at the expense of the ratepayers.
The US was hobbled under regulation and lack of energy production under the previous administration. We were growing at a measly 2% GDP. Now closer to high 3% in 2 years with deregulation. Yet, efficiency of vehicles, production and daily life has increased substantially.
Climate change: The new leftist religion.
Blessed be Saint Gore, Patron Saint of the Climate Changers.
Gore’s prophecies are written in the Holy Book, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
St. Gore spreads his message with $175K speaking engagements; lives in a temple mansion near the coast to witness the 5-20 sea rise; and has a corporate jet to personally check on the welfare of cute polar bears as the Arctic melts.
Heed his words, it’s for the women and children and polar bears.