More Unintended Consequenses
May 16th 2008 11:47
As promised... This one is a little more obvious...
Al Gore and killings in a bread line don't seem to have much in common... or do they? It's another case of cause and effect. More unintended consequenses.
Global Cooling was the hue and cry of the 1970's. When the world didn't freeze to death by the 1990's, Al Gore figured out it must be Global Warming that prevented it. When he lost his bid for the White House in 2000, he had to have something to keep his name in the public memory, so he dove into the Global Warming story enthusiastically. Remember, he did nothing for the "environment" during his years as Vice President. "Earth in the Balance" was his first "test flight" into fantasy land. It sounds remarkably like the Unibombers Manifesto.
Discovering that he could sway a few gullible folks to buy his book, he decided that a movie should be next. So, with quasi-science, invented "facts", and a whole lot of nerve, he created "An Inconvenient Truth." Academy Award and Nobel Peace Prize followed, making him and his followers start believing the lie, themselves! Until it became clear that the warming trend had ended and it was cooling again. But that didn't stop him, oh no! He simply changed the name of the impending doom to "Climate Change." Apparently he thought that he could get away with the new name no matter what happened.
Enter the "Greenies" who think the planet would be better off without any humans at all. (With the obvious exception of themselves, of course!) Somehow, it became politically correct to buy into the "Climate Change" idea and even world leaders (or wannabe world leaders) jumped on the Gore bandwagon. They successfully prevented the exploration for more fossil fuels, citing the "environmental hazzard" of using petroluem products. They insisted we find "alternative energy sources" like solar (without actually funding research) and wind (but not near the homes of those who support it). Nuclear works fine in Europe, but they don't want it here. How about "bio-fuels?" they ask. Instead of using algae or industrial hemp for the bio-fuel, they have to use food crops (like corn!)
Using corn to make ethanol sounded like such a good idea at first, until the reality struck home. Forget the fact that ethanol is more expensive to produce and still has to be transported by trucks. Forget the fact that not all vehicles can run on it. Look what it did to the food supply! The unintended consequense was less corn for food (both human food and animal food, folks). It was all going to ethanol. Farmers got in financial trouble when the price of corn (and other grains shot up) and couldn't feed their livestock. The higher prices, like a great big snowball, started rolling downhill... getting bigger and bigger all the time.
Did I mention killings in bread lines? The price of fuel has sky-rocketed (like you didn't know, right?) bringing the cost of food right along with it. All over the world the effects are being felt. In the poorest countries, there are now bread lines where people have to stand and wait their turn to get bread to feed their families because that's all they can do. Hunger, stress and nerves get the better of some of those people and fights break out. Last I heard, 10 people had been stabbed while waiting for a loaf of bread...
The oil cartels keep raising their prices because they can. None of the oil rich countries are willing to lower their prices for humanitarian purposes. We are all dependent on them for oil and paying out the wazoo. If Gore and his "Greenies" hadn't been such shameless camera hogs, we would probably have had alternative energy sources by now and the fallacy of ethanol would never have happened. (At least not with food crops.)
Gore's action was intended to keep himself in the limelight, folks. Nothing more. The unintended consequenses are the real crisis.
Al Gore and killings in a bread line don't seem to have much in common... or do they? It's another case of cause and effect. More unintended consequenses.
Global Cooling was the hue and cry of the 1970's. When the world didn't freeze to death by the 1990's, Al Gore figured out it must be Global Warming that prevented it. When he lost his bid for the White House in 2000, he had to have something to keep his name in the public memory, so he dove into the Global Warming story enthusiastically. Remember, he did nothing for the "environment" during his years as Vice President. "Earth in the Balance" was his first "test flight" into fantasy land. It sounds remarkably like the Unibombers Manifesto.
Discovering that he could sway a few gullible folks to buy his book, he decided that a movie should be next. So, with quasi-science, invented "facts", and a whole lot of nerve, he created "An Inconvenient Truth." Academy Award and Nobel Peace Prize followed, making him and his followers start believing the lie, themselves! Until it became clear that the warming trend had ended and it was cooling again. But that didn't stop him, oh no! He simply changed the name of the impending doom to "Climate Change." Apparently he thought that he could get away with the new name no matter what happened.
Enter the "Greenies" who think the planet would be better off without any humans at all. (With the obvious exception of themselves, of course!) Somehow, it became politically correct to buy into the "Climate Change" idea and even world leaders (or wannabe world leaders) jumped on the Gore bandwagon. They successfully prevented the exploration for more fossil fuels, citing the "environmental hazzard" of using petroluem products. They insisted we find "alternative energy sources" like solar (without actually funding research) and wind (but not near the homes of those who support it). Nuclear works fine in Europe, but they don't want it here. How about "bio-fuels?" they ask. Instead of using algae or industrial hemp for the bio-fuel, they have to use food crops (like corn!)
Using corn to make ethanol sounded like such a good idea at first, until the reality struck home. Forget the fact that ethanol is more expensive to produce and still has to be transported by trucks. Forget the fact that not all vehicles can run on it. Look what it did to the food supply! The unintended consequense was less corn for food (both human food and animal food, folks). It was all going to ethanol. Farmers got in financial trouble when the price of corn (and other grains shot up) and couldn't feed their livestock. The higher prices, like a great big snowball, started rolling downhill... getting bigger and bigger all the time.
Did I mention killings in bread lines? The price of fuel has sky-rocketed (like you didn't know, right?) bringing the cost of food right along with it. All over the world the effects are being felt. In the poorest countries, there are now bread lines where people have to stand and wait their turn to get bread to feed their families because that's all they can do. Hunger, stress and nerves get the better of some of those people and fights break out. Last I heard, 10 people had been stabbed while waiting for a loaf of bread...
The oil cartels keep raising their prices because they can. None of the oil rich countries are willing to lower their prices for humanitarian purposes. We are all dependent on them for oil and paying out the wazoo. If Gore and his "Greenies" hadn't been such shameless camera hogs, we would probably have had alternative energy sources by now and the fallacy of ethanol would never have happened. (At least not with food crops.)
Gore's action was intended to keep himself in the limelight, folks. Nothing more. The unintended consequenses are the real crisis.
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