I know some libs will take issue with this, but it’s true. There is no real agreement on whether or not climate change is real or, even if it is, whether we are causing it. They want you to think that, make no mistake. That’s why they do things like this.

And with a track record like this (hat tip to ST), why would we listen to them at all? They’ve done nothing but predict doom-and-gloom for close to forty years (ever since modern-day liberalism reared its head) and they’ve been wrong, not once or twice, but every single time.

These people, they don’t care about the environment one bit. If they did, then they’d all be living like hermits by now. They’d all be in grass/mud huts, riding bicycles, and eating (not smoking) whatever plants they could find. They want the rest of us to live that way, yeah. But them…eh, not so much. It’s about power and control. It always was and it always will be.

Look, everyone wants clean water and clean air. Nobody wants to purposely kill off an entire species just for the heck of it. Nobody wants to see trash and crap littering our streets, our highways, or our neighborhoods. But the way to prevent all of that isn’t with government control, it’s by private ownership. Give people a stake in something, they’ll keep it clean, I promise you.

For example, we just bought a house last fall. The yard was a mess, there were trees dying on the property, and plants and flowers were being choked out by weeds and overgrowth. Because I now own this property, I am taking great care to clean it up and make sure that the grass, trees, plants, and flowers are healthy and thrive. Is it fun? No, I despise doing yard work (always have). Is it cheap? No, it’s actually costing me more than a few bucks. IS it time consuming? You bet. The last thing I want to do on my days off is to be out in the hot sun pulling weeds and picking up sticks, rocks, litter, and God knows what else. So why am I doing it? Because it’s my home, and I want to take care of it. I don’t want to live in a filthy environment, basically.

The same thing applies to the environment. You can’t force people, via government regulations, to care about the world around them. Only a sense of ownership can do that.

Now, don’t take that to mean that you can’t have basic regulations that punish people for deliberately polluting (littering, dumping chemicals or hazardous materials, stuff like that), because of course you should. But you shouldn’t be out there trying to pass laws based on pseudo-science and forcing people to live the way you think they should be living, simply because you think it might help the planet.

That’s not freedom, that’s a dictatorship, which is why I say this entire “global warming” bit is mainly about power and control. There are, undoubtedly, scientists who think this is real (and, indeed, certain parts of it may be, but nowhere near the “we’re all gonna die!!!” scenarios they present) and have good intentions. But the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, as the saying goes. Doing what these people say will mean the end of this country as we know it. Plus, there are many prominent scientists who disagree with them (but are being forced to shut up on the subject, as the earlier link demonstrates).

Of course we should explore alternative forms of energy (mainly so we are independent of foreign sources). Of course we should figure out ways to recycle as much as we can. But we shouldn’t scrap our entire economy and our way of life based on something that might — MIGHT — work, but is unproven.