by Viv Forbes, science writer
If governments truly believe that man’s production of carbon dioxide causes dangerous global warming, they would ban the use of motor cars, motor trucks, tractors, motor homes, motor bikes, motor mowers, motor launches and petrol-driven chain saws. These all pump out the two dreaded greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide and water vapour. Horses, bullocks, wagons, bicycles, scythes, row-boats and axes are the true-green tools – all were good enough for our pioneers.
They would also close all coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, and cover the land and buildings with solar panels and windmills. (Smart people would also stock up on candles and fire-wood for those cold still nights and cloudy windless days.)
Fair dinkum climatists would also ban all tourism advertising. It just encourages people to jump into cars, buses, trains, aeroplanes and ships to go somewhere else, consume local resources, produce tonnes of CO2 and then come home again (passing in transit all the other people doing the same trips in reverse). We should surely be instructed to stay home and watch David Attenborough on battery-powered TV.
What about all the government-promoted fireworks displays, motor rallies, sport extravaganzas and never-ending world games and expos? These all require millions of people to go somewhere, consume things and then return home, producing heaps of carbon dioxide. With the modern magic of NBN, every Australian could have a ringside seat at every world circus without leaving the comfort of their own lounge chair.
And if governments were Fair Dinkum, they would have already nominated a region to pilot-test the costs/benefits of their true-green society. (I nominate Tasmania.)
Today’s politicians are not Fair Dinkum.
If they were Fair Dinkum, they would confess that carbon dioxide is innocent and all this has nothing to do with controlling climate, but everything to do with controlling people.
Hey Vic, when you get home tonight, park your Fair Dinkum car but leave it running and attach a hose from the exhaust pipe to the dryer vent and have the car’s exhaust change the climate inside your house. Why is the air inside your house different than the air outside your house? Thinkum a wee Dinkum….
better management of resources and use the best practices only. Abolish all damaging and wasteful ways. take your black n white goggles off and look in the grey area for change.
Michael do you take penicillin when you’re sick because if you do next time you’re sick you better tell your doctor that you don’t want Penicillin because it was developed by a bunch of idiots called scientists that belong to the same cult as the scientists that are telling you what’s happening with climate change, get ya head out of the sand Michael.
Viv Forbes is 100% correct. The Global Warming Cult is promoting the greatest scam in history.
In this article “by Viv Forbes, science writer” I think I detect a typo, the article should read “By Viv Forbes, science fiction writer” either that or Viv is a right wing red neck nut case that doesn’t believe the science, these nut cases like Viv Forbes run down the science on climate change but you never hear them running down the science on Penicillin and other scientific discoveries even though Penicillin was discovered by science as well, it doesn’t suit their nut case ideologies to criticise something that can save their life when they’re crook, Viv it must be difficult writing articles with your head buried so deep in the sand.