Global Warming Activists Villainized [Again]

Okay, I said I’d give it a while to sink in before I made my judgement known about the video I posted. Well, I’ve thought about it, and now I have to say that, in spite of their attempts to make me not care about carbon emissions, I still do, and their argument still it does not matter.

First, I’d like to point out something: in the video there is one part where we, the people who are preaching against C02 emissions and pollution, are somehow at fault for poverty in Africa. Because we want to curb emissions, it is our fault–directly–that rural Africans do not have access to electricity and are not industrialized. For starters, industrialization and electricity follow the great evil: money. If someone wanted to build a factory in rural Africa to utilize the poverty-stricken populace to make sneakers for the American consumption machine, then there would be electricity, and smog and everything that goes along with it. But there’s still not going to be electricity in that mud hut for the woman who just wants to feed her baby, because though she works at the sneaker plant, her .55c per day can barely afford food and clothing, much less an extravagance like electricity. The point being, it doesn’t matter how much environmentalists speak out, rural Africa is without power largely because of the lack of industry. They’re not without industry because of a lack of power.

But the makers of this video, insidious as it is, want to villainize environmentalists as the root of all this evil. They want us and the general public to believe that the poor woman in the video who is seen cutting a stick off a tree so she can cook for her child in her mud hut, could have a coal-fire plant built in her back yard if only I’d loosen up my views on global warming and admit that C02 emissions don’t matter. They want the public to believe that the clinic which has a photovoltaic cell on its roof would miraculously receive its very own power station if only I’d let them. These go beyond half-truths. They’re flat-out lies. The clinic has enough power to run either its light or its medicine refrigerator–and thank God for that. If they didn’t have that photovoltaic cell on the roof they wouldn’t even have that convenience. I don’t know the address of that particular clinic, but I’d be willing to bet there’s not a power plant within a hundred miles of it. I’ll bet it’s rural, and damn lucky to have the solar cell it has, which was probably donated.

For the creators of the video it’s a good strategy, trying to turn the tables on the liberals. By making them think they’re at fault for suffering they’re trying their best to press the button that makes the liberal public bemoan the hardships of others. It’s a big button. It’s a shame that I have to point this out, but here goes: people who believe in global warming are not the reason rural Africa is not industrialized. And, also, Africa’s lack of electricity is not what environmentalists are trying to reduce, we want to reduce the mass consumption of nations which are already industrialized. Not end it, mind you, reduce it. Clean it.

The other point I’d like to make is that, despite the mass of scientists speaking out against the effects of carbon emissions in this video, their arguments don’t matter. I don’t care if, in the long run, our emissions are not affecting the climate at all. The fact is that you cannot tell me that carbon emissions–pollution–are good for the planet, or for people. Smog is bad, pollution is bad, excess C02 is bad, and whether it is warming the climate up or not DOES NOT MATTER, I still don’t want to be breathing that shit, and I don’t want my kids to develop emphysema or asthma because of it.

Essentially, this video is teaching us the lesson that it doesn’t matter how filthy we make the air. In fact, it’s telling us that we cannot make the air we breathe filthy enough. That volcanoes, animal dung and the oceans produce more harmful C02 individually than all of mankind combined. And if that’s not horseshit I don’t know what is. That giant cloud of noxious gas floating around Beijing during the Olympics wasn’t caused by manure, nor any volcano. It was caused by man-made pollutants.

It is worth it to me to curb carbon emissions based solely on the health aspects of the cause. It is for that reason that my battle cry has never been “Global Warming,” but always has been “Stop Pollution.” I’m not going to get involved in the argument as to whether carbon emissions are effecting climate change, because I don’t care if they are or not. To me, it is an enormous waste of energy to argue with Anne Coulter or anyone else on the topic, because neither she nor anyone else can dispute this simple fact: POLLUTION IS BAD. Nobody can.

If that blowhard Rush Limbaugh wants to build a coal fire plant in Kenya, good for him. Although I’d bet my bottom dollar he wouldn’t even contribute a dime toward buying that clinic in rural Africa a new photovoltaic cell so they can run their light bulb.

And worst of all is that the video site hosting that pack of lies and half-truths called “The Great Global Warming Hoax” is entitled “The Hope For America.” It’s criminal. To think that people will watch this and give one ounce of credence to their argument is revolting.