I have agreed to publish ‘Letters to The Editor’ that fail to make the mainstream newspapers. The following contribution from Art Raiche appears to have been overlooked by both the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian:
Dear Sir,
Australia’s CO2 output is insignificant compared with that of the rest of the world. We could shut down all our industry, ban the burning of all fossil fuels and reduce ourselves to lives as hunter-gatherers and it would not make one whit of difference to climate change either here or anywhere else in the world.
Why should we initiate measures that will see jobs exported to countries that have no intention of putting serious emission controls in place? It is often said that we are amongst the highest producers of CO2 per capita. That may be but why should Australians be punished because we haven’t let our population get out of control?
Earth hour is being touted as a wonderful symbolic gesture. It is a gesture that may make the self-flagellants feel good but the earth’s climate system is not affected by symbolic gestures. If we were serious about such measures, we would ban night-time sport. The “environmental message” rock concerts would be less hypocritical were they to ban electronic instruments and amplification and ban admission to those who came by private cars.
There has been life on earth for more that three billion years. Homo sapiens has existed less than a quarter of a million years. We do not need to “save the planet” because it will be here long after we become extinct. We do not need to hasten our extinction as a prosperous nation because of mass hysteria generated by a misunderstanding of the earth’s climate system.
Art Raiche
[address supplied but withheld]
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
Jennifer: As I could not gain traction with Art’s letter I went exploring with google and found some fascinating stuff.
All I can say is Art should be attracted to the climate predicting industry instead.
Art Raiche – outrage?
Ah yes. We’ll start maintaining the lifeboat as soon as all you slackers get fed and housed and have a bucket of your own to bail with.
And we’ll be right up that hill just as soon as you get on with the climbing your own self.
Good on you for being fat and happy and having a relatively underpopulated continent.
The opportunity in going green for Australia is that the best use of the middle of the land is to capture sunshine and wind and export it to Asia.
Give it fifty years and you could clean up China’s air by selling them clean energy, or sell them the coal and let them choke. Then they’ll come round.
What fans and athletes can endure sporting events during the hot part of the day during the hottest seasons of the year? If you have to burn carbon somewhere, you might as well burn it away from home and while having fun–if lefties allow us to still have fun.