CLIMATE NONSENSE
When an issue takes on the trappings of a religion, rational discussion becomes impossible. So called climate change, previously known as global warming, has become such a secular religion. The defining characteristics of a religion are received wisdom, irrefutable dogma and thoughtless true believers. Disagreement becomes heresy and blasphemy and those who question the dogma are vilified and shouted down.
This is currently the situation with climate change. No dissent is allowed. Dissenters are mocked and marginalized. The politically correct embrace the dogma and idealize it. Research funds dry up for any researcher who does not accept the catechism. The media promotes the supposed consensus and ignores anything to the contrary.
The reason for this is pretty pathetic. Collectivist ideology is wedded to the idea that man is evil. That greedy plutocrats are destroying the earth for their own profit, and that only returning to some non-existent socialist utopia can we be saved. They long for a return to an imaginary “natural” state of being where all creatures will live in harmony with what they idolize as “nature”. Never mind that this state is unobtainable and would be catastrophic if it were.
This would be laughable if these people had no power. But should they ever gain the power their intention is to force everyone to comply with their ideology; “for their own good”. Since their ideology is irrational and absurd, and flies in the face of reality, such a program can only lead to disaster.
Rational people understand that reality trumps ideology.
9/25/14
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