If you really want to preserve the earth

  One cannot pickup a paper, watch TV or go on the internet without reading about someone’s idea on how to save the earth. Just about every one of those ideas is centered around restricting what people do in their daily lives.  It may be driving less or buying a so-called green car, or stop taking long distance vacations, etc . They suggest the government should write laws to limit the size of your house, the kinds and number of light bulbs you can use, or other means of forcing you use less energy.  I won’t continue because the list just goes on and on.

Of course most of the people making these pronouncement are very well off, if you know what I mean.  They live in the best areas,  go to the best vacation spots, drive the best cars, ride in private jets and have homes with 6000 plus feet of living space (Al Gore please call your office).  In other words they are living the high life. They are often children of wealth, who proclaim that they are against the way their parents live, but they still enjoy the benefits of that wealth and stand to lose little of their creature comforts, if the proposals they make are put into law. The simple fact is, the people who they expect to suck it up and live at a lower standard of living are the lower midde class and the poor, not themselves.

They, the vocal environmental and global warming crowd, have even designed a clever and very dishonest way to continue living the high life while everyone else gets to suffer. It called carbon credits.  It is where the rich can spend a little of their money to buy so-called credits from companies developing alternative energy sources and other similar kinds of things.  This is supposed to balance out the huge amounts of energy used to support their high standard of living. It is a bunch of horse dung and they know it! However it gives them the appearance of doing the right thing.  Even their support of higher gas prices ,as a way to reduce energy use is bogus, when you understand that $20.00 a gallon for gas will not have any significant impact on them.  It will however strip the lower classes of their mobility, but that is not the environment  saviors problem.  They say they care about the poor but it is a total lie.

At the rate the world population is growing all of this effort is a waste of time anyway.  In the late 1950s the population of the US was around 150,000,000.  Today it is over 300,000,000 or it doubled in about 50 years.  The world population today is over 6 billion and it is growing at an even faster rate than the US.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this is going.  Even if we can somehow find a way to feed that many people their lives will be not very enjoyable.  Not the kind of life most of americans see as fullfilling and something to look forward to. The only way to preserve both the quality of life for the masses and keep the earth looking the same as it currently does is to reverse this insidous population growth. Even the dumbest farmer in the world knows he or she cannot graze an unlimited number of cattle on a finite amount of land. However you never hear the environmental experts discuss this as a solution.  Why?

Based on the growth rate of the population, even if we cut our energy use in half over the next 50 years the growth of the population will simply overrun that savings and more. Global warming , if you believe it is caused by human activity, cannot be stopped in the long term unless we stop the growth in population.  Of course if one is willing to allow the masses to live like cattle without electric lights, cars, tv, heated houses, etc and we don’t care how many starve maybe we can.  However don’t expect the elites to be counted in the ranks of the masses. They will continue to live as they do now, well maybe a tiny bit poorer due to paying their carbon credits.

Paul Upson

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