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Denying it won't make it go away....

Posted by NigelBaker - 7 May 2012 at 4:49pm - Comments

Climate Change Denial-A bastion of nationalist and corporate stupidity...

Since the 1980s a minority of people have done their utmost to pretend that human interaction with the earth's resources isn't causing the climate to change. This denial seems to go in phases. At one time there was no such thing , then warming caused by greenhouse gases would be a 'good thing' then climate change would happen but it would be no real problem. Now it seems the whole thing is a hoax designed to increase taxation. Yet all the time it is becoming more and more obvious that the climate is indeed changing. Just in the last six months we have seen some of the warmest temperatures ever recorded followed by some of the coldest then some of the wettest months ever and yet this all one long strange coincidence? Possibly/possibly not.....And aren't there easier ways to raise taxes? A clever politician can easily get them raised by telling us they will be spent on health care or even the military. It's easy to generate fear in the current world what with Iran and China and Argentina all looking belligerent and what patriot could refuse to pay-surely a lot easy to sell to the populace than fancy-smancy stories about melting icebergs and starving people in Africa? And presumably this illicit tax crusade has a clandestine force that has brainwashed all these learned scientists across the world etc etc?

Or could it just be that if we accept that the climate is changing and we have to do something about it, that's too much of a change for the nationalist and corporate right to deal with? That current structures such as nation states, polities and corporations need to cooperate in order to ensure our survival as a species and would thus undermine their very existence? Climate change is not a fairy from Peter Pan: it will not curl up and die because we say we don't believe in it and we have a narrowing opportunity to deal with it. If the worst consequences of this action are that we have to see turbines spinning and solar panels glinting and that we see our costs in energy bills go from 2p a day to 7p a day then so be it. The consequences of doing nothing will be immeasurably worse....