A Self Portrait...

02 June 2017

Paris Climate Agreement

Has been flushed down the toilet, round the U bend and into the sewer of fraudulent, nay impossible dreams.
Earth in her wonderful and very mysterious way is, or at any rate appears to be changing her climate. Maybe she's bored, maybe she thinks those nice, temperate climates the people of western countries have used, loved and abused for so long need a good kicking, maybe she thinks the seas and oceans need to be refilled and maybe she thinks those puny, nasty, downright wasteful humans of everywhere need the good kicking, or maybe the grand old lady earth just wants to loosen her corsets and get comfortable again.
Its not the first time the earth has changed its happened several times that even we puny, insignificant humans know of, but it maybe the first time one of earths species actually dared to think they could, should and damn well would stop her or at least slow her down.
How dare we?
We don't even know if climate change can or should be stopped. All we know is we fear it and are determined to at least slow it down. Its also possible some western politicians think climate change can be made useful, sure with the right warnings, threats and eventually laws all humans can be made to obey the new laws which will undoubtedly be needed to save the earths climate.
We don't know enough about earth and we don't have the right to make decisions about her climate. If we were the caring, sharing, lovable humans we tell each other we are we would spend our time and money building and reinforcing sea walls. We would make sure everything we build is fully insulated and storm proof and like Noah we would make sure all endangered species were moved to safe areas.
What we would not do is try to stop the earth our planet from doing what it has to do, we don't know if or what catastrophe might befall us all if we managed to stop something as natural as climate change and none of us has the right to claim anything we do or stop doing will stop climate change or even slow it down.
And, naturally there's politics...
Of course because those nasty white people found. discovered and invented almost everything and use a lot of their own inventions all the time they are guilty of being successful, arrogant and most importantly - white, and because of their success, their arrogance and their lack of colour they must be punished! To them goes the burden of higher taxes, lost jobs and of course - the blame...
President Trump has committed the sin of not believing humans could or should interfere with climate change. He is of the opinion politicians are using climate change as a stick to beat successful countries, why he understandably asks should Americans pay tax for climate change when countries like China and India with huge populations and what can only be described as 19th century attitudes to health and safety at work pay no such tax? Why indeed...
If western politicians want to save the planet they should start with being honest about why they want to tax western countries more than others, and while they're on the subject why they allow millions of people of different religions, customs and cultures to move to western countries, and yes it is about climate change both mass immigration and climate change have been dreamed up by the same people the question none of them want to answer is why?

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