Back At It

Haven't done this in a while, so might not be as good as it as I should be. David Harsanyi has written an article about Greta Thunberg - the sixteen year old who spoke out against continuing degradation to our economy. The part I love though comes right near the beginning.

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg lives in the healthiest, wealthiest, safest and most peaceful era humans have ever known. She is one of the luckiest people ever to have lived. In a just world, Thunberg would be at the United Nations thanking capitalist countries for bequeathing her this remarkable inheritance. Instead, she, like millions of other indoctrinated kids her age, act as if they live in a uniquely broken world on the precipice of disaster.

If Climate Scientists are accurate, we may have done damage to our climate that will be difficult to undo - and the ferocity of weather conditions over the past years attests to that. However, I am sure that Harsanyi can point to industry shills who make a good living pretending that the environment is just fine. You have to decide which seems more credible. At the end of the day you can't get something for nothing - as I'm sure Harsanyi would be quick to bring up if we talked about Welfare. We have mortgaged our future with the damage we have done to the environment, and we are like bums who see the bills and set them aside, hoping somehow that things will work out. We can either pay the bills we've incurred by changing our pattern of living, or we can have very rough times as our "remarkable inheritance" is repossessed.