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The Green Life: Do we have the willpower to slow climate change?
So just how far back do we need to turn the clock to save the planet, and do we have the discipline to do it? That’s the thought that came to me one day recently as I put a package of blueberries in the cart while shopping for groceries. Blueberries in winter aren’t how it used to be; it used to be that you got blueberries only during blueberry season. But modern man decided we wanted blueberries all year round, so we ship them in from around the world, via plane, ship, train and truck — and therein lies the problem: how big is the carbon footprint for fruit out of season, and are we willing to give that up to reduce fossil fuel consumption?
Fortunately, “climate change” has not only slowed, ie the 17 year pause, but stopped, with zero temperature rise during the 21st century, and some data shows a slight cooling. Second, I love how the opinion piece writer, Jimmy Buff, first says that getting blueberries out out season, getting them in winter no less, is strange, then acknowledges that they are shipped, but that’s evil because of the “carbon footprint” or a modern society.
Or course it isn’t just fruit out of season that we need to consider. What about trips in the car just for fun or for a quick errand? How about those extra few degrees to keep the house warmer instead of wearing a sweater? Or sweating through a heat wave instead of using the air conditioner or even a fan? Could you, if the future of mankind depended on it, give up these advances in technology?
Truth be told, I’m not sure I have the discipline necessary myself. I like modern conveniences. I like driving long distances to go run a race. As I drive, too, I see people talking on cellphones or texting (two of the least enforced traffic statutes it seems) despite knowing that those things are dangerous and distracting and contemplate the will needed to do the things we need to do in order to get to where we need to be to slow or stop climate change.
And there’s the point, a modern lifestyle is evil, so Other People need to be forced to give it up. Not the writer, of course, since he’s spreading awareness. And has no intention of doing anything himself.
In the early ’80s, Bob Dylan put out a song called “License to Kill.†Dylan sang: “Oh, man has invented his doom/First step was touching the moon,†and for years I wondered about that line. I’m not wondering anymore.
Yet, Warmists refuse to do more than make token changes in their lives. So why in the heck should we believe anything they tell us if they aren’t willing to put their beliefs into practice for their own lives?
