Thread by @GGReisman

The enviro-socialist “climate emergency” crowd was busy last week trying to launch the human equivalent of a cattle stampede by getting people to plunge into socialism to avoid bad weather.

There were headlines such as “Greenland is on track to lose most ice on record this year and has already shed 250 billion tons.” wapo.st/2Z1ECgl

It turns out that this amount of water is equal to slightly more than 60 cubic miles. (bit.ly/33tnVhf) The total volume of water in the world’s oceans is approximately 320 million cu. mi. (bit.ly/2N2yl1x)

Since the average depth of ocean water is approximately 12,100 feet (idem), this works out to a rise of 0.0000001875 feet in the level of the world’s oceans.

But hurry up and sacrifice Industrial Civilization, because centuries more of such increases may amount to something more significant. (Of course, we’ll be helpless to deal with it because we’ll have destroyed our industrial base.)

I say, if global warming is coming, let it come. If it does come, it will come as an act of nature, because no individual human being or voluntary association of human beings is responsible for it.

At most, it’s the unintended by-product of the separate, independent actions of billions of human beings across a period of almost ten centuries.

Something for which no actual acting human being is responsible is an act of nature.

We can cope with global warming. What we can’t cope with is global central planning, which seeks to manipulate the world’s climate by prohibiting the self-interested actions of billions of people—of everyone but a handful of alleged government experts, such as Al Gore and AOC.

Turning our world into one in which practically the entire human race is prohibited from acting for its self-interest on the basis of everyone’s independent intelligence is a formula for mass extinction. Al Gore and AOC are not a substitute for the independent human mind.

In fighting for the preservation of Industrial Civilization, our first demand should be NO GOVERNMENT CLIMATE MANIPULATION! Government officials are typically not smart enough to run their own lives very well. That’s why they’re working for the government in the first place.

They should not have the audacity to try to seize control of the planet and force billions of people to sacrifice their well-being in service to fantasies and delusions, those of the officials and those of the enviro-socialists who support them.

Environmentalism and socialism are a match made in hell. Socialism (government ownership/control of the means of production) to prevent global warming will certainly achieve its inevitable result of a massive decline in living standards.

But thanks to environmentalism, that will be considered success! Environmentalism sets a standard of “success” that socialism can meet. Poverty is the goal of environmentalism. Socialism is certainly the means of achieving that goal.

To Hell with environmentalism and socialism! Let us achieve a world of full, unhampered capitalism and resume the economic progress and rising living standards of the Industrial Revolution.

For more, see my essay “The Toxicity of Environmentalism,” available in Kindle format at amzn.to/1HZ4a0c for 99¢.

For still more, see chap. 3 “Natural Resources and the Environment” in my Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. This book is available both in Kindle and hardcopy formats at amzn.to/2PM19ut.

The book is also available as a free non-printable, non-copyable pdf download at capitalism.net.