Posted on 03/16/2019 5:16:11 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Hi kids,
Many of you will be marching today, demonstrating for an issue you believe to be very important.
Many years ago, I was young, well informed, and absolutely convinced I knew enough to make good decisions for the future of the world, and couldn’t understand just how obtuse all the oldies were, how they just didn’t know the stuff I had just learned.
Malthusian economics drove most of us, the Club of Rome had reported, and to my subsequent shame, I confess that in 1975 I voted for the Values Party…. I wanted a better world, I knew resources were on the verge of running out, the population was out of control, and we were polluting our one and only planet. It was, I thought, time for the change that was so desperately required.
The Values party did not get in, to our surprise the resources did not run out, Simon won his bet with catastrophist Erhlich, as countries became more wealthy they cleaned up their environments, particularly water, farmlands, and air.
China is now wealthy enough to be doing exactly that right now, following in the footsteps of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. We certainly never see the famous foaming rivers of industrial Japan anymore.
Economists now understand that the ultimate resource, the human imagination, never runs out.
So is it likely to be with climate change. I urge you to never abandon your scepticism, for a critical mind is your most important asset.
Be able to articulate exactly what evidence has persuaded you to your opinion. Opinions though, are not evidence. Consensus is not evidence.
The world has many historic consensuses that have turned out to not be so. So far, I don’t mind sharing with you, I have yet to be persuaded.
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Thanks - good comments.
Good thread. Thanks. I like OAN but it’s hardly ever available online for free. I did just try this Pluto TV Newsy stream and it’s not bad. Just news without bias in the short time I’ve been watching it.
Oops. Wrong thread.
I remember believing Paul Ehrich was telling the truth when I was a young skull full of mush at the University of Arizona as an engineering student. A few months later, after really looking into the Environmental movement, I learned that Ehrlich was a hack.
Kids are basically dumb. We all were. That is why we should make the voting age higher, not lower.
JoMa
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