Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Still Matters

I love the consistent inconsistency of the left.

First we are told that the world is already being ravaged by the fallout of human induced global warming. Next we hear that if we don’t drastically reduce CO2 emissions in the next decade or so, “we’ll start feeling the brunt of the effects as soon as 2040.”

Hackel and Sparkman make the car if we are going to avoid the climate catastrophe, whenever it comes, we need to start by driving a Prius, tossing our charcoal grill, avoiding air travel, etc.

The IPCC has sent up a flare on climate change, but this warning is not enough. Many people will need to see others making real changes instead of carrying on with business as usual. Ask yourself: Do you believe politicians and businesses will act as urgently as they need to if we keep living our lives as though climate change were not happening? Individual acts of conservation—alongside intense political engagement—are what signal an emergency to those around us, which will set larger changes in motion.

What these folks and others ignore are tremendous human closure costs of returning to a society powered by the wind, sun, and wood. Poverty, disease, and death on unprecedented scale awaits us in the world of expensive, inefficient fuel they imagine.

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