By Klaus Rohrich
Monday, July 9, 2007
The Live Earth event of this past weekend reminds me of the 1930s and 40s movie genre where a bunch of kids would put on a musical show to save the radio station or their parents' farm. Except in this case Live Earth was put on to "save the planet" as the earth's popular musicians all joined hands with Al Gore to raise awareness of our ecosystem's perilous existence.
While the sentiments behind Live Earth are admirable, the science behind man-made climate change is less so, at least if one listens to those scientists that are not on the payroll of the UN. But then, climate change is the perfect tautology for those who want to regulate our lives down to the minutest details (incandescent light bulbs, anyone?), as everything is evidence of climate change.
If the summers are hot, then that's evidence of global climate change. If the winters are less cold, then that's evidence of climate change. Hurricanes, such as Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, are evidence of climate change and increases or decreases in the thickness of our polar ice caps are also evidence of climate changing. If you don't believe it, then prove that these phenomena aren't part of climate change. Please note that any evidence you may offer to the contrary will be discounted as the rantings of a "climate change denier" or as trumped up and doctored junk science that's paid for by the oil companies whose master plan it is to destroy the planet completely.
Al Gore has found his niche with his Oscar-winning "documentary", An Inconvenient Truth and in the process has managed to make Michael Moore look almost principled. Good thing he didn't become President of the U.S., as the world might have lost a great motivational fantasist.
I frankly find the hysteria surrounding the concept of global warming embarrassing, as it betrays a plethora of really negative group characteristics, starting with guilt, gullibility, lack of independent thinking and working its way through to the dangerous quasi-religious fanaticism espoused by the likes of Canada's own Dr. Strangelove, Maurice Strong, who believes that the world would be a better place if say, 90% of humans ceased to live on it.
The Live Earth event also presented an opportunity for theCanadian lunatic fringe to make itself heard, as the likes of GlenMacIntosh, founder of ecoSanity, an organization that is demonstrably notsane, given their participation in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's "housearrest" last winter had an opportunity to throw in his two cents' worth.
MacIntosh told Torontonians at the Green Toronto streetfest, which was billed as a part of the Live Earth celebrations, "Our primary motivation are (sic) the people of the most impoverished nations of the planet, who have very little to do with causing any of these problems and are suffering and dying because of the lifestyles of richer nations."
Right. All we in the industrialized world need to do to find salvation is to don a loincloth and revert to our innate and innocent noble savagery and that will save the earth.
I dread thinking about where this movement is planning on going once their crackpot theories prove fruitless. It is said that the universe is expanding at a speed greater than that of light and theories have it that at some point this expansion will stop and will begin contracting until it implodes completely. Maybe Al Gore can then develop a theory that the reason the universe is going to end is that we are living too well, using too much energy and driving gas-guzzlers.
Of course when that time arrives, we'll be holding Live Universe concerts.
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