Posted on 10/04/2014 9:14:32 AM PDT by Signalman
Polls of voters consistently show that Americans place global warming (sometimes framed more generally as environmental concerns) at or near the bottom of their list of priorities. Most of the top concerns are almost always directly related to the economy.
Yet, there were approximately 125,000 people who turned out for the People’s Climate March in New York City. Why aren’t there even more people marching against the poor economy and unemployment, since those are the biggest concerns?
In a way, that really is what they were marching against. Mostly. Let me explain.
First, people really can’t get worked up over weather changes that they haven’t experienced themselves. With most Americans routinely dealing with temperature changes of 50 deg. F or more, they really don’t care much if the average changes by 1 deg. F. With the 18-year hiatus, most teenagers today haven’t even experienced global warming. We should also remember that people prefer warmth over cold. For example, over their lifetimes Americans preferentially move to where it’s warmer.
Second, when it comes to the environment, people have been warned by “scientists” of catastrophe for decades. Many of us were supposed to die long ago from heat, floods, storms, crop failure, etc. It didn’t happen. Global warming fatigue has been brewing for years, and is now firmly entrenched. Google Trends reveals that over the last 10 years, Google searches on “climate” have steadily decreased to about 50% of what they were, whereas interest in “weather” has increased by about 50%.
Next, those of us old enough to remember driving through Gary, Indiana in the 1960s and early 70s know how much cleaner our air and water are today. Smaller gains in “cleanliness” come at greater and greater cost now (although the EPA, which wants everything to be infinitely clean, does not seem to care about that). Unlike government bureaucrats, who get routine pay raises and job security no matter how much they hurt the business (our country), the people who actually pay the bills (taxpayers) still live in a cost-vs-benefits world.
Furthermore, most people understand that fossil fuels have been necessary for the prosperity that we all enjoy (at least those under political systems allowing people to benefit from their labors). Energy which currently is dominated by fossil fuels, and will be for decades to come.
Speaking of which, how’s this for a hockey stick?:
I think getting an extra 40 years of life in exchange for 1 to 2 deg. of warming is a pretty good deal. Might even be a win-win. So, do we really think that the People’s Climate March (which led up to the U.N. Climate Summit 2014) really was about climate?
There is considerable evidence that the People’s Climate March wasn’t as much about climate as it was an excuse for those who want a different political system. If you really believe that capitalism is destroying the Earth and hurting people — or even if you don’t really believe it — then environmentalism becomes a really good excuse to dump capitalism.
Especially if you can convince people you have some new and unusual statistical knowledge
125,000 people?
Well, according to most libtard sites it was anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 morons...
Humm, whom to believe...?
I would guess 125,000 was being generous...
Except Democrats
Many are adults and do not believe lies.
I’m worried about night crawlers. Silly deniers refuse to see the obvious (albeit unsubstantiated) link between night crawlers and polio.
Those bastards.
“Why Don’t More People Care About Global Warming?”
Because it isn’t? Because they are cold? Because they like civilization, prosperity and life.
I guess they expect us to be worried about the well-being of the Easter Bunny, too.
“Next, those of us old enough to remember driving through Gary, Indiana in the 1960s and early 70s know how much cleaner our air and water are today. Smaller gains in “cleanliness” come at greater and greater cost now (although the EPA, which wants everything to be infinitely clean, does not seem to care about that). “
You aren’t kidding. I knew people who lived or worked there, and the paint would come off of cars in about three years, and rust through in five. People who lived there had to paint their homes every three years or so, or else. And where I lived in suburban Chicago, the entire southeast sky was a smoky red glow at night, 365 days a year, until the mid-70’s.
It pisses me off that the left paints republicans / conservatives / capitalists as uncaring about the future; I posit that they actually think about it MORE (and that’s how they became wealthy); many conservatives have children too, and it seems to me that it’s always the fat cat capitalists who leave lasting legacies for others, going all the way back to Carnegie and Rockefeller.
We have been well PAST diminishing returns on the environment since the mid-80’s; hence, my rationale to reduce the size and scope of the EPA to mid-80’s levels.
No one is marching about unemployment and jobs because the people who aren’t working are getting paid off, and the people who are working are too broke from taxes to risk taking time off and spending the money to get to a protest.
It’s actually a brilliant system. Evil, but brilliant.
“Some want to live within the sound
Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.”
― C.T. Studd
I noticed that, too. "Global Warming" didn't get the job done. "Climate Change" has performed less than stellar. Hey! Let's try "Environmental Concerns"!
More people need to wise up and realize that this is an industry, with thousands of investors, corporations, researchers, pundits, "scientists" and all manner of other people (paging Al Gore!) depending on us believing them to keep the checks rolling in.
When they say "deniers," what they really mean is "those who would deny me my next grant."
Because, most of us don’t want to be seen as stupid, unlike you synthetically erudite juveniles. ..
For the same reason, people don’t care about protecting the cockroach...it makes no sense.
Because 93 million people are looking for work and don’t have time to worry about a leftist scheme.
Robert Kennedy Jr considers deniers more than just heretics. He thinks they should be jailed as criminals against the planet because deniers are “contemptible people”.
During the People’s Climate March in NYC, he was interviewed where he denied being a hypocrite for living a lavish lifestyle of SUVs, multiple homes and private jets but would have us believe that the average Joe’s lifestyle needs to be scaled back to the 7th century AD.
He also let slip, in a increasingly agitated and heated exchanged with the reporter, even grabbing her microphone from her, that the real problem was those “evil” Koch brothers, not his lifestyle. This was the real agenda of these climate nuts coming out into the open. They don’t give a rat’s ass about the climate. This is all about overturning the capitalist system and replacing it with their ALWAYS FAILED socialist system. This is their revolution, veiled behind this environmental climate voodooism.
RFK Jr. believes so called “deniers” are heretics and he wants to hold an inquisition.
Mars is hotter now wonder how we did that?.
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