I don’t particularly care about ‘Climate Change’ when I see the immediate impact of policies so far… Third world families struggling. So far the only thing that seems to have been accomplished by saving the planet is making families pay for it by hiking the price of wheat.
Underneath the admonishments from politicians and scientists about how we need to save the planet there seems to lurk a far darker and more dangerous mood: anti Third Word sentiment. How dare China and India try to grow their economies and help their populations by burning coal. How dare poor families in Egypt actually try to feed their families with cheap imported wheat. Screw human life. Or should I say, “Screw human life that doesn’t live in the Western World.”
Of course, it’s perfectly fine to lecture other (poorer) countries about their wasteful ways because we in the West are clearly superior and didn’t spend the Industrial Revolution polluting every river in sight. And if some of ‘those’ people have to die to make it life pleasant for Westerners well… never mind.
My own prediction is that the same people who tell us we have to do our bit to save the world will be the same people complaining bitterly when actual polices impact their own lives in a very real and harsh way.
The Depression was probably the ultimate ‘green and healthy’ experience for many as they couldn’t really afford much of anything in the way of consumables (like gas for their car, or a house, or fatty calorie laden food) but I doubt anyone who lived through it would tell you how much they enjoyed it.
