Climate changes. It always has. Why is this so dofficult for liberals to grasp? Sometime in the next 5,000-20,000 years, New York City will be completely wiped off the map. All buildings will be swept into the sea by glaciers. There is nothing we can do about it. We have no way to oppose a force so massive it CREATED Long Island just from sediment from glacial “scraping” of the coast. The Earth’s forces dwarf us. And then there is the power of the Sun. Whatever we do is rendered irrelevant by these massive forces.
Leftists have trouble with dynamical systems. Marx’s critique of capitalism was based on the assumption that it would always exist as it did in the early ‘wild’ ‘robber barron’ phase. They can’t understand that tax cuts increase revenue, while tax increases decrease revenue, because they assume that the economy is static. They never understand any example of the ‘law of unintended consequences’ because they assume if you change something, you change only what you change without disturbing the dynamics of the system: thus they deny that the court decision extending AFDC to unwed mothers with illegitimate children had anything to do with the rise in illegitimate births or the number of women raising children alone.
When they see change, they assume someone must be ‘doing something’ to cause it, and that the government can ‘do something’ to fix it, or cause more change it, depending on whether they like the change or not. There’s actually something ironic about their doctrinaire insistence on Darwinian evolution, seeing that they assume all other change is driven by intelligent actors (including climate change).