It seems since the 1960s when environmental concerns became an issue to be concerned with, that each decade we face and fight some major environmental disaster which threatens to inevitably kill us all, if we don’t do something about it. Back in the 1980s it was the Ozone hole… did they make us feel guilty for having a fridge, an A/C or using a deodorant? With time it turned out the gas in question was actually one of the main components needed for the formation of new ozone!!! Furthermore, it turned out that a simple volcano puffs out many times more of the same gas each time it decided to burp. It turned out that the hole was always there, growing bigger or smaller, and that we really had nothing to do with it. But a decade of talking, of changing, of adopting policies and legislations passed, together with billions of cash spent on scientific research, and what for? Basically, for nothing.
Today is the Global warming “disaster” we are faced with. First it were our cars responsible, now it is well acknowledged that it is yet again one of those natural processes that we cannot really control nor can we effect. By now however the Global warming has been well used for major international agreements, trillions go for more scientific research, and the whole story repeats itself again.
Personally, I have no problem with that, if some smart people found a way to use ignorance to make money, good for them. What worries me is if the fact that a natural process of gradual warming, which brings about (and will continue to do so) some changes in the flora and fauna in certain regions of our planet, is NOT taken into serious account! So far our response seems to be based on the presumption that if we do this or that or the other, we can actually prevail, and things will remain unchanged… which to my view is complete non-sense.
If science says that in X amount of time water levels will raise up with Y amount, is anything being done to relocate the settlements which one day might find themselves under water? If climate will change therefore preventing certain agricultural produce being grown, is anyone thinking what else could be done to replace this with something that will work under the new changed environmental conditions? Because if what the scientists are saying today is true, then people better start planning for the upcoming and inevitable changes of tomorrow, as to avoid any major economic or other disaster resulting from those changes.
Other issues which intrigue my mind are: if nature has decided to change, then what is it doing that for? Is it because the population is growing, and more fertile land is needed to feed that extra population? Or is it another natural phenomenon we cannot find a logical explanation to, so as usual we try to exploit it as a profitable financial speculation? Or is it that some Hegel devotees are trying to use such naturally occurring phenomenon for their own political aims?
