This post must be preceded by a fable that makes a subsequent point; A man in a helium balloon was hovering above a river where a man was fishing. He had no idea where he was. He called out to the man, "Can you tell me where I am?" "Yes", said the man, "You are in the gondola of a helium balloon right above me". "You must be an accountant", said the man in the balloon. "Why, yes", said the fisherman, "How could you tell?" "Well, because the information you gave me was absolutely accurate, but also totally useless"
Such is the information we often get from Santosh Helekar. Absolutely correct but devoid of any context or perspective and therefore useless in developing any rational action. He proudly cites detailed information of the carbon dioxide being spewed by Mount St. Helens right now with that produced by humans around the world. This is just one volcano with a low level of emmissions right now that I had cited as an example of the futility of trying to control Mother Nature. There are many volcanoes around the world, which erupt from time to time with huge emissions of not only carbon dioxide but also other gases like sulphur dioxide that are harmful to humans and the environment. Old Mother Earth, which is far tougher and resilient than Santosh and the other environmental activists would like us to believe, just takes all this in stride. Santosh now tells us that the percentage of the atmosphere that is made up of carbon dioxide is 0.036%, which sounds about right. Some of this is caused by human endeavor and some by natural causes. Some of this gets recyled by plants through photosynthesis and some does not. The point that any rational thinker must confront, as opposed to someone like Santosh who just wants to make points about the accuracy of his information and how "bad" western industry is for mankind, is whether it makes sense to disrupt the economies of the western world, and exempt the large and growing economies of India and China, to control a portion of the earth's atmosphere so small that there is no rational way it can have any effect on anything, leave alone the warming of the entire planet. The earth has warmed and cooled before, and will warm and cool again, and we puny humans can do nothing but cope with the effects. Rational observers need to focus on reality. Frozen Siberia was once covered by forests. Lush North America was once covered with a sheet of ice, all before the first automobile was invented." Since failing to use socialism and communism to bring the world down to the lowest common denominator, the left-wing has decided to try and achieve the same ends through the only remaining option available to them, the environment. The attempt will fail just as surely as the previous one did. By the way, the bridge in NY is still available.
