This story makes me sick to my stomach.
LONDON (AFP) - Human induced global climate change is a weapon of mass destruction at least as dangerous as nuclear, chemical or biological arms, a leading British climate scientist warned.
He said the United States, in an “epic” abandonment of leadership, was largely responsible for the threat.
“Like terrorism, this weapon knows no boundaries,” Houghton said. “It can strike anywhere, in any form – a heatwave in one place, a drought or a flood or a storm surge in another”
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“Once this killer heatwave began to abate, 1,500 people lay dead – half the number killed outright in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre,” Houghton said.
To equate global warming with terrorism is morally reprehensible and absolutely disgusting. Terrorism is the result of fanatical ideologies which resort to the initiation of force (namely, fear, and terror) in order to try to force a certain ideology on others. Terrorism is the result of the CHOICES of reprehensible human beings. Global warming (to whatever extent it exists) is an unfortnuate consequence of man’s improving his own existence through industry, technology, and progress. But global warming, and other such potential harmful environmental problems (if they do exist) are not inherent consequences of industry, technology, and progress, as many environmentalists claim. Any such problems (if they do exist) can be solved by the very things which it is alleged have caused them: technology, industry, and progress. These solutions to environmental problems (if they do exist) can only come about when the essential requirement of man’s existence and the use of his mind is fulfilled: freedom. Only a system of freedom, in which the government recognizes the right of every human being to use their own mind however they want, will produce the results necessary to eliminate any potential environmental threats to mankind. This system of freedom, is laissez-faire capitalism.
But the environmentalists do not advocate what is required for human beings to be able to create new technology, industry, and achieve continual progress; laissez-faire capitalism. Instead, many environmentalists advocate that human beings “return to nature,” by drastically reducing the amount of energy, industry, and technology used and change in their economies (to either a mixed economy or some form of socialism). This essentially means trading most or all of the increases in quality of life that we, The United States, have experienced in the past 100 years. It also means a profound violation of the inalienable rights of human beings to their own life.
The equation of global warming, caused by the United States according to this scientist, with the thousands of deaths caused by terrorists is sick. What this scientist is attacking is not environmental problems which pose a grave risk to human beings but rather the progress, the quality of life, and the achievement of The United States. This scientist is attacking everything which makes America great, and all of the causes for America’s achievement of greatness in the past 100 years.
Disgusting.
