What does it matter if man-caused climate change—which most respectable scienteist are convinced is happening—or some other nasty outcome results from the unchecked wasteful energy and resource use and pollution generation of a larger population than the world has ever known? Is anyone really so blind, ignorant and stupid to imagine that we can get away forever with greedily using stuff up faster and faster and just chucking the 'waste' into the air, the water and all over the landscape until there's nothing left and there will be no consequences?
When China's the world's biggest producer and consumer of clean energy—if you watched the Olympics then you know they have incentive—how patient d'ya think they'll be with BigCoal-enslaved America polluting the world faster than any one else, at rates in the double digits per capita. And who holds the notes that prop up the Yankee dollar?
Let's not think about water wars, but we do share the world's biggest supply with the world's greediest user. One that's already experiencing domestic water 'wars' in the SW, and still has an appetite to flush away bad stuff—Chicago sewage—with clean.
'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing' would seem a lot more reasonable a rule to live by than, 'When you can prove your science, then maybe…' And long before we need to 'know' climate change is or isn't a fact there's lot's of good somethings to be done. Like getting StupidUselessVehicles off the road, like reusing stuff instead of junking it, like pollution cost pricing, like…
Besides, how can anyone prove any science to people who believe Intelligent Design is science, or that the Dinosaurs walked the earth the same time as man?
Perhaps the answer is to improve the jury selection process. Somethin's happenin' here and you don't know what it is do you Mr. Jones?
There was a time fish were so plentiful in the Don, you could scoop them out, and the Sunday roasts for weeks were a few cents of powder and shot away from your door. Don't miss it? Then aguing 'Is Global Warming Real' in a Summer of 30 SMOG days locked in AC'd discomfort and wearing a mask to get to your AC'd SmartCar to drive an hour or more to lock yourself in an ACd house on a summer night to watch a TV fantasy-world that doesn't stink, will suit you fine.
It's here already, and doing nothing will guarantee there'll be enough of that hideousness for all the billions of children the six billion of us now here (when I was in school it was barely 1.5billion) are gonna spawn.
So it really doesn't matter about climate change: billions of people living with the me-first example of the first world have plenty of casus belli already. What are we doing to change ?
