Maybe in the fantasy world of the virtuous businesman trashing people like Gore, Suzuki and other organizations and individuals that came before them makes sense.
But we live in the real world where individuals and organizations often produce and sell things they know to be toxic. Things like DDT, thalidimide, dioxin, PCBs and cigarettes to name a few. The profit motive has no conscience so the common good demands individuals who do.
CO2 has been listed as a pollutant by the US EPA for a very good reason, it intercepts long wave radiation that would otherwise escape into space, it's basic thermodynamics. To a certain point this is a good thing. Beyond a certain point we get climate change effects that include, increased severe weather events like droughts floods, tornados and hurricanes. We also get a rising sea level and the disruption of entire ecosystems.
The province I was born and grew up in for instance is covered in hundreds of thousands of square miles of dead and dying forest which according to experts I know(including my father who has a masters in forest-engineering and who worked in the private sector in BC for over forty years) is directly attributable to a change in the climate there, namely shorter milder winters that favour the survival of the pine beetle.
Denying a problem doesn't make it go away, and people like Gore and Suzuki are far more honest and courageous than the faceless men in the corporations who just care about the bottom line.
But we live in the real world where individuals and organizations often produce and sell things they know to be toxic. Things like DDT, thalidimide, dioxin, PCBs and cigarettes to name a few. The profit motive has no conscience so the common good demands individuals who do.
CO2 has been listed as a pollutant by the US EPA for a very good reason, it intercepts long wave radiation that would otherwise escape into space, it's basic thermodynamics. To a certain point this is a good thing. Beyond a certain point we get climate change effects that include, increased severe weather events like droughts floods, tornados and hurricanes. We also get a rising sea level and the disruption of entire ecosystems.
The province I was born and grew up in for instance is covered in hundreds of thousands of square miles of dead and dying forest which according to experts I know(including my father who has a masters in forest-engineering and who worked in the private sector in BC for over forty years) is directly attributable to a change in the climate there, namely shorter milder winters that favour the survival of the pine beetle.
Denying a problem doesn't make it go away, and people like Gore and Suzuki are far more honest and courageous than the faceless men in the corporations who just care about the bottom line.
Last edited:
