Climate Derangement Syndrome

a calm look at the climate

Climate Derangement Syndrome

Fear is a great motivator but destroys critical thinking. It causes people to rush like lemmings to the cliff to die saving themselves from death. Whether or not “climate change” is an issue is not the question. If you want to talk about polluting the environment, that is a question that addresses the whole issue of survival of the human species. Catch phrases like “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” do nothing to define the problem and everything to inflame people’s attitudes. History has proven that mankind is able to fix any problems it creates. But clear thinking must be the director of the solutions.

Lowering standards of living as a panic response is not good thought or practice. The first thing to be done is to put hyperbole aside and see where the problem really is in the world.

One does not start at the end of a journey but at the beginning. Make the fuels used in the world cleaner whether that is coal, natural gas, or atomic. This will make the transition to a cleaner environment possible while seeking long term resolutions. Do not cut off the branch we are sitting on (fossil fuel) until we are able to move to a better branch (wind and solar are not those branches – not yet, maybe never). Green energy can’t meet the needs of a developing world. Every one’s standard of living must be raised without lowering anyone’s. Robbing people like that will lead to conflict like the world has never seen.

True science – not the imagined science of manipulated data – supports the fact that there is time to clean things up and that mankind will come up with better solutions in the time we have to correct the situation. But controlling and manipulating energy is just another form of warfare and a way to control the general population. This Earth is ours and we need to use it and care for it at the same time.

The best things we can do are: not to panic, clean up current fuel sources, raise the standards of living everywhere (where current governments will allow – governments that don’t allow will be at risk to be overthrown once their people understand what they are doing), and protect countries that are working to better the situation. People who have better lives will respond to what needs to be done to protect those better lives.

The best medication for Climate Derangement Syndrome is to put away fear, panic and despair and calmly move toward a better future not to expect the end of all life.