Climatic Catachlism

Fear leads to anger.  Anger leads to hate.  Hate leads to suffering  - - - Yoda

Political leaders use fear to get your vote.  All of them do.  Trump wants us to fear illegal immigrants, Beto wants us to fear the end of the world in 12 years from "climate change".  Funny thing, the human species is horrible at reading tea leaves.  The only people who came close were the optimists like Roddenberry.  Communicators are REAL!  But when we look to the future of the human race we almost always see it falling further and further into despair.  Politicians leverage that predisposition to gain more control and make more money.

We have been hearing about catastrophic climate change for 50 years and each time the prediction is that we only have 10 years (give or take 730 days in Beto's case).  We are told that we must DO SOMETHING!.  Usually that "something" involves a tax with the supposed goal of punishing those causing the end of the world.

Do you use coal to create electricity?  Well, you're going to have to pay for that.  Pay who?  The government of course.  Will they use the money to plant trees thereby reducing CO2?  NO!  They will give it to green energy.  How will that fix the problem?  It won't and your electric bill will be in the ozone layer because green energy can't produce the amount of power we need.

So, no I won't support that "solution" since it solves nothing.  What I will support is free market innovations.  If the government wants to use some of their billions of dollars in grants to fund research into green alternatives instead of building an Iron Man suit then that's fine....I guess.  But in the mean time stop scaring people. 

FAST FORWARD

I feel like a just stepped out of the telephone booth with Bill and Ted.  I'm coming back to blogging to keep my sanity.  I left because of Facebook but Facebook has become too much of a time suck so I'm back.  I've noticed, after reading my posts from over 12 years ago (ouch!) that I've also lost my sense of humor.  Well, it's time to get it back baby! I'm looking forward to some catharsis here.  Hopefully my actual friends will read this stuff and chime in but if not, so be it.  I need to vent and laugh at my own jokes.  So here we go!