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By: Pinochet88 Date: May 21, 2016, 9:10 am
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Τίποτα δεν
έχει να
φοβηθεί η
ανθρωπότητ^
5;
από τις
αλλαγές της
θερμοκρασί^
5;ς
που ο
πλανήτης
ανέκαθεν
υφίστατο
και που
είναι
βλακώδες να
πιστεύει
κανείς ότι
οφείλονται
στην
ελευθερία
που μόνο ο
Καπιταλισμa
2;ς
μας
προσφέρει.
Μην ξεχνάμε
ότι ο
άνθρωπος
έχει
μεγαλύτερη
πιθανότητα
να πεθάνει
τους κρύους
μήνες του
έτους παρά
του ζεστούς.
Σίγουρα
λοιπόν,
ακόμα και αν
αλλάξει η
θερμοκρασί^
5;
της Γης και
επανέλθει
στα επίπεδα
που ήταν και
προηγούμεν_
9;υς
αιώνες, ο
άνθρωπος θα
συνεχίσει
να
μεγαλουργε^
3;,
αρκεί να
έχει
Καπιταλισμa
2;
και
ελεύθερη
αγορά, γιατί
μόνο με αυτά
υπάρχει
ευημερία.
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The Benefits of Global Warming
By Butler Shaffer
May 21, 2016
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law.
Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea,
whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not
infrequently it is downright idiotic.
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~ H.L. Mencken
Those with ambitions for power over their fellow humans continue
to speak of the threats of “climate change” and “global warming”
as though they were expressing revealed truths. Religious dogmas
can find their roots in scientific as well as theological
thinking. Questioning either the “intelligent design” or “big
bang” explanations for the origins of the universe can evoke
angry responses from true-believers on either side of the issue.
In the case of the High-Church Warmingists, a verifiable fact
(i.e., increased temperature) is merged with an empirically
unfounded assertion (i.e., human activity is the causal
explanation) to provide true believers the rationale for their
rule over mankind. Those who deny this article of faith are
targeted for dismissal in academia and even televised weather
shows.
I grew up in a Midwestern city that had been the southernmost
reach of the glacier that once spread across most of North
America. In my undergraduate years, the courses of study from
which I learned the most were in geology. Among the many
insights that contributed to my understanding was the knowledge
that the Earth had undergone many fluctuations and variations in
temperatures, plate tectonics, magnetic shifts, and numerous
climate changes. It is difficult for intelligent minds to take
seriously the idea that the extinction of dinosaurs in
Antarctica was occasioned by pre-human beings driving SUVs or
using aerosol sprays!
A much more personal awareness of my connection to mankind’s
history on this planet began when I contemplated how many direct
ancestors (i.e., parents, grandparents, great-grandparents,
etc.) I had in the past two-thousand years. My calculation
excluded siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, nephews and
nieces, and other relatives who were not part of the “but for”
explanation for my existence. Two-thousand years is but a tiny
fraction of the hundreds of thousands (or more) of years during
which humans have existed. Using roughly thirty years per
generation, I played out the mathematics of my genealogy (i.e.,
two to the sixty-seventh power) and came up with this number of
direct ancestors I had in so short a period of time:
147,573,952,589,676,412,928 individuals – the same number you
had during this period.
This number represents some ten to twelve billion times the
estimated number of humans ever to have lived on this planet.
Math, alone, confirms what being members of the same species
already tells us: we are all related to one another.
I recently had an even more powerful experience that confirms my
ancestral connectedness to humanity. One of my daughters gave me
a Christmas gift that allowed me to participate in a project
that traced my distant ancestry through my DNA. A number of
weeks after submitting a sample through which my DNA could be
identified, I was informed of the routes taken by my ancient
ancestors beginning some 50,000 to 60,000 years ago. From Africa
to Asia, to the Balkans and Central Europe, and then, during the
Great Ice Age, to the Iberian peninsula.
Because of the great sheet of ice that covered so much of the
planet – and Europe in particular – this branch of my ancestry
was confined, for thousands of years, to territory that we now
call Spain. Upon learning of this, I was reminded of the ancient
Cave of Altamaria, in northern Spain, upon whose walls can be
found a variety of paintings of animals and humans. These walls
also contain hand-prints placed there by some of the earliest of
humans.
These handprints have long held a fascination for me. They have
suggested a kind of spirituality – the kind that goes beyond
religious doctrines – that we struggle so hard to express: a
need for transcending our individual experiences, and to connect
up with others and the rest of the universe. Religions; the
sciences; poetry; our motivations for fame, success, even power;
creativity; and so many other forms of human motivation, are
underlain by this need.
The hand-prints that reach out in this cave from 15,000 to
20,000 years ago contain what may be the most powerful spiritual
expression of our individuality: “I was here!” Were these people
being driven by the same inner life-forces that cause people to
make great discoveries, to invent, to compose music, to create
and operate businesses, to design beautiful buildings, to
produce statuary and paintings, to write novels that help us
find meaning and motivations in the conditions of human
existence? When I write my books and articles – for which
Gutenberg’s invention provided me a far-reaching medium – am I
saying anything more than what my Altamira ancestors were saying
with their hand-prints: “I was here”?
Such thoughts have meant more to my inner sense of being than
does the mathematics that quantifies my relationships with these
great-great-great-great-to-the-nth-power-grandparents. The names
and faces of these people are unknown to me; only their
hand-prints provide visual evidence of their existence. But they
did provide me with their connection to my life: a shared DNA
reminds me that, but for them, I would likely have had no life.
My understanding of the geologic history of our shared planet
informs me that “global warming” – causing the retreat of the
great sheet of ice that engulfed so much land – allowed for the
expansion of territory and opportunities for the well-being of
my ancestors. I doubt that there were any well-heeled,
power-hungry Al Gores of their time warning them of the dangers
inherent in the carbon footprints of their neighbors who sought
a broader expression of living as human beings.
I also doubt that my ancestors regarded the warming of the
planet as a threat. If they had the benefits of an understanding
of the Earth’s inconstancy and variability, they may likely have
regarded the ensuing warming of the planet as just another
period of change that might prove life-enhancing. I suspect that
they would not have defended the restricting ice as a desired
status quo condition to be protected from human action.
Implicit in the Warmingist theology is the arrogant assumption
that there is some objectively “correct” temperature at which
the Earth “should” function. Can such a position be sustained by
any evidentiary criteria, or is it but another instance of the
arbitrariness of standards announced by those who insist on
controlling their neighbors? Addressing the question from a
biological perspective, Brother Mencken asks: “Who will argue
that 98.6 Fahrenheit is the right temperature for man? As for
me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually
freezing, hence the pervading stupidity of mankind.”
In my ancestral hand-prints and my writings, I find a shared “I
was here” message that celebrates – rather than condemns – what
it means to be human. To simplistic minds challenged by the
uncertainties, complexities, and inconstancies of life, the
enjoyment of power over others will be regarded as necessary for
stabilizing their world.
To reinforce the listing of the cardinal sins they wish to
control or punish, the Warmingists remind us that our actions
have consequences. As a general proposition, they are correct.
Helping students become aware of this truth was a core principle
of what used to be celebrated as a “liberal arts” education. But
in an age in which politically correct ideologies have so
infected academic life, the tools with which the Warmingists
operate tend to be quite superficial.
Richard Weaver’s classic work, Ideas Have Consequences, extended
the principle into the realms of philosophy and ideology. At a
time when socialists and other central planners ask us to
substitute their illusions for the informal and spontaneous
orders that sustain us, it is timely to recall the consequences
of political systems and programs that did so much to destroy
the lives of so many. The Soviet Union, Maoist China, Nazi
Germany, and the present difficulties now being experienced by
people in Venezuela, provide some of the most familiar examples
of the consequences of empowering a few to dominate and rule the
many by force.
The global warming that melted the great ice sheet that confined
my Iberian ancestors, allowed them to move into other regions in
Europe, thus enhancing their opportunities for living well.
Perhaps there is a lesson for us all in this example. Will
“global warming” have consequences? Of course, it will, just as
did earlier periods of “global cooling.” If the planet is a
living system – as I believe it to be – then we should accept
fluctuation and variation as expressions of what it means to be
alive.
As with my ancient ancestors, our mutual descendants may benefit
from global warming. Just as central Europe and Scandinavia
became available for earlier expansions of life, our posterity
may find heretofore frozen territories becoming available to
them. Perhaps such places as Greenland, Siberia, and Antarctica
might become sites for human beings to live well. Who can
effectively argue with such a possibility?
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