The Climate Will Take Care of Itself

By I. M. Ulysses

After reading Rex Murphy's "So why aren't we celebrating saving the planet" I was reminded of a quote from the movie 'The Core. "I came here to save my wife and my two children. Seven billion lives, it's too much."

It's too much because, for the average guy, proving for your loved ones is far more important than the vagaries of 'climate change' and what might or might not happen now or 300 years from now. When you have a mortgage or rent to pay, electricity, heat and water, food and clothing, the other issues don't matter.

Politicians, however, don't seem interested in that.  Perhaps that's because they are inherently disconnected with the people they were ostensibly elected to serve. Indeed, US President Obama called "climate change" a 'bigger threat' to the world than even terrorism.

That's actually a very sad statement.  It demonstrates that the 'little people,' the ones who do most of the living, tax-paying and dying, are not that important when, as Mr. Murphy pointed out, world leaders wish to be seen "slaying a world-threatening dragon that has yet to be allows them all the strut and self-importance that trivial matters like deficits, job creation, and commitment to everyday peoples’ struggles do not. The latter is real work, the former a magnet for spotlights and inflated self-grandeur."

Terrorism, unemployment, higher taxes, higher prices for food and transportation all have an immediate and consequential impact upon our lives. If one loses their job, they cannot afford to live NOW, let alone be concerned with the theories of well-paid scientists and professional political hacks drum up and support.

From a historical-perspective, it might give leaders like Prime Minister Trudeau or President Obama great satisfaction to know that in 300 years people may give them credit for 'saving' the world by implementing polices that might have 'prevented climate change.' But most people, the people that will struggle to pay for their policies, and their hypothetical outcomes, and their egotistical legacies, don't care about that. Their struggle is the struggle to live long enough and well enough to ensure they can provide for their families NOW.

That's the problem with the current climate-change mania. These political leaders are asking us to sacrifice NOW for hypothetical outcomes that MAY benefit people down the road. 

That would be fine if we were certain that these sacrifices are both necessary and worthwhile. But, as appealing as the idea may be to some, for the rest of us, It's too big a notion to contemplate.

For the rest of us, for my wife and I in particular, what really matters is  the security, happiness and health of our friends and family NOW. The concerns of generations to be born years from now matter little when you cannot pay your bills, buy food and just live.

That may seem selfish to those who are certain about 'climate change' and the need for us to make sacrifices for the future. But Mary and I, along with most people, are not concerned about the self-important posturing and preening of people who are both wealthy and important enough to not be affected by the policies they hope to implement. 

We're more concerned about the well-being and health of people we love and care for NOW. And as long as they and we are doing fine, I'm sure, to paraphrase Trudeau, 'the climate will take care of itself."


Read Rex Murphy's column here:
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-so-why-arent-we-celebrating-saving-the-planet