Opinion: The Politics of Global Warming

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Opinion
J. B. Burke

For those of us who were the geeks that watched science and nature channels as a kid I remember listening to scientists say at the time that due to a lack of a accurate working global models it's impossible to know for sure what the results of global warming would be (Not that they have a completely accurate model now but this is 30+ years ago as well), But one of the things they thought was a probable outcome of the future was that the scientists thought there could be is more extreme weather patterns. That's higher highs and lower lows and fiercer conditions in general. Because not only could Global Warming bring this on by itself but the earth is bound to exit this climatically and geologically speaking calm period in the planets history eventually. No body claimed to know when the calm period (which has allowed mankind to flourish in) would end, but that sooner or later that it would end and that could cause the same conditions as they feared global warming could have. And what if the two factors could compound each other? This could be catastrophically bad for all of us. And that even if they were wrong wouldn't it make sense to take precautions? What were these precautions? Reduce our use of fossil fuels. That's it. And even still politicians, and people are fighting this because it's become a political issue. Not based in anything other than what some lying politician says. But here is the deal, even if every scientist IS wrong about it, or even if they are right about it and even if we get the mathematically near impossibility of having the greater forces cancel each other out, and even if the first glacier I ever saw isn't there anymore (which it isn't), and even if all this shit we pump into our air and water turns out to be good for that planet. Even if all that is true, how is finding and using alternatives to fossil fuels a bad thing? Because in the end an oil well runs dry, the coal vein runs out and in the end, it will run out. It may be now and it may be in 50 years. But it will happen happen all the same and, that is just common sense. And in the end we will have to find alternatives. And in the end, how many of our sons and daughters are we willing to sacrifice just to postpone the inevitable?