Environment Canada’s Climate Change Fiasco
Dear Editor;
Re: Global Warming rivals Sponsorship Scandal
Your article underscores the importance, in my view, of ensuring that rigorous academic principles be maintained when politics and government become involved with scientific endeavour.
It seems to be an ever increasing trend for leaders in government to direct large amounts of tax payer money
to projects that serve their political and financial aspirations even in the face of strong academic scientist
objections.
Environment Canada on Global Warming appears to be one example. There are many other expensive
examples in modern society today.
Maybe this is how it was decided to build the Great Pyramids!
It is possible that what we are seeing has plagued every great civilization in history. There are mainstream
theories that ancient civilizations fell because they over extended themselves economically in one way or another through ambitious projects that directed resources away from what was important and needed. It is
as if a kind of insanity grips these civilizations and that its citizens are powerless to correct it.
Being a scientifically astute society only seems to be working against us as it is providing a plethora
of excuses for those with political ambitions and inexhaustible appetites for money and power to
build themselves empires based on poorly thought out scientific theories.
Our political system in our civilization is clearly not immune to this problem that may have resulted
in the collapse of previous civilizations.
It is a compelling theory when one realizes the huge cost of these money and resource
wasting activities. Ongoing costs in the hundreds of billions to trillions worldwide in total figures are enough
to cripple a civilization, permanently.
It is painful, nonetheless, to be watching at the side lines.
At least the Great Pyramids provided a nice tourist attraction, albeit after the ancient Egyptian civilization fell.
John Hamel
