2/09/2019

I have taken do a little today to political wandering. So bear with me. If there was such a thing as a global ice age--and I have never met a liberal who would deny that--then it has had to be global warming. So global warming being a fact, who can say when it ended?  

When abortion supporters were warned of the slippery slope that would come with it, they were dismissive of even the possibility. The example of Nazi Germany was comedic to them. But we have a number of baby butcheries, partial birth abortion, and now full term death as a legislative adventure. The slope looks both steep and slippery.

For some years the rage against fossil fuels has been both loud and shrill. It is for me a fact that industry will take all the rope they can get and never hang themselves. Let me give you two illustrations. As you head north on Texas 259 past Longview you come to a city named Lone Star for the Lone Star steel mill which is just South of it on Texas 259. You would have had no problem knowing you were within 25 miles of the city because the whole landscape was covered with red dust from the steel mill.

I have another illustration equally graphic. Going east on I-10, as you enter the city of Lake Charles, on the west side of who city were a number of chemical plants. Before federal regulations demanded cleanup for miles you could see a yellow smoke blowing from their smoke stacks. And on both sides of the interstate all grass and trees were dead. That smoke was acidic.

These illustrations notwithstanding, there has been cleanup and the pollution was unnecessary. To even imagine the removal of all fossil fuels is to imagine an environment empty of what we live with and take for granted, like shoes and eyeglasses. Be aware that practically speaking all man-made fibers have a carbon base. All fuels that we depend on have a carbon base. No  air conditioning with carbon based ingredients.

Finally to think of farming without pesticides and fertilizer is to deny that earth's inhabitation are better fed, healthier, and live longer than any time in modern history. How tall are you buddy?