The following is a response to this article by the British conservative elitist blog The Green Arrow. It is indescribable. Go ahead and read it, but prepare to be shocked. I posted this in the comments, but, being bigots of epic proportions, they censored me.
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This is ridiculous.
First of all, to say that global warming has yet to be proven is to say the same thing about evolution, the atomic model, or the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around. Sure, by definition all science is theoretical, however things are as “proven” as they are going to get. Outside of theoretical mathematics all we have to go on is empirical evidence and these “theories” are what we can extrapolate from this information.
So when the overwhelming majority of scientists say we have to do something about the state of our planet, and you say “Hi, I’m a skeptic without any credentials or relevant education, and your theories are unproven!”, you are the Catholic Church to Copernicus’ Heliocentrism. You are leftovers from the Dark Ages.
But this skepticism, however unrealistic and denialist, is still not completely absurd. There are at least a handful of intelligent people, actual accredited scientists, who refute the idea that global warming is our fault.
However, your third sentence shows your true colours. To refer to the poorer nations of the world as “people that we do not need” is a despicable and monstrous thing. I would have you know that Britain itself would be nothing compared to what it is today had it not exploited its third world colonies, such as in India and parts of Africa. Not that all the other major powers of the world haven’t done the same, but as you seem to be so hard on these poorer human beings you should probably know that you are the reason for their suffering, and their suffering is the reason for your wealth. I suppose you thought it was just because you were better than them.
And although it’s crazy to say that the entire third world hates British people (it’s more likely that they look up to you and the U.S. Americans culturally, especially among the younger generations), if they did they’d have every reason to.
Then you go on to say that there are “billions of humans who would actually benefit from climate change”. First of all, as a resident of Montreal, Canada, I can tell you that even here winters are pretty okay. Even living in one of the coldest major cities in the world, I would say this “terrible cold” and “sparse sustenance” is a load of crap. You’ll find that as you move north, the population density decreases drastically, and where it’s too cold to live comfortably there is almost nobody at all. Sure, it would be nice to have a longer growing season around here, but we’re doing just fine as it is.
Now here’s why even a slight increase in global temperature is so dangerous. As I’m sure you’re aware, most of the world’s population lives near an ocean or another large body of water, because every civilization needs an abundant source of water. Now imagine the chaos that would ensue if the glaciers melted. Even a little bit. It would be the New Orleans disaster, but for the rest of the world’s coastal cities. And you naively say, “Hmm, it gets a little chilly around here some times, I could do with some of this Global Warming they’re talking about.” Fuck your heating bill.
“Why should we have to care about what is happenning to countries on the other side of the world who generally breed like rabbits. It is abundantly clear that all their social and food problems is because there are too many of them and they just cannot support themselves.”
Just listen to yourself. Like the rest of this post, it seems to be written by an 14 year old kid: please learn how use question marks, and plural verbs when talking about more than one of a kind (“problems are”, not ” problems is”). Either learn to spell or use a spell checker, I won’t even bother to point out the sheer number of spelling mistakes here (“The big debete”, etc. etc. etc.). Problems are “due to” or “caused by” something, not “because of”. You know nothing of the world’s problems, and you know even less about what causes suffering in developing countries. Of course it’s just because they’re having too many children. So why should we care about them? Idiot.
You really think nature is going to simply look after itself? Wouldn’t that be nice. There are stupid people everywhere, but I find it sad that someone from such a developed country could be so misinformed.
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