POFTIDES of Moss Beach Misses the Point

In a thread at the TalkAbout forum at HMB Review, I argued that it would be better to address issues such as clean air and water, alternate forms of energy and energy independence that to adopt measures intended to stop global warming.

In a classic case of a carbon footprint hypocrite missing the point, POFTIDES of Moss Beach responds:

"We spent the summer flying around the world looking for a place where the weather wasn't all frugged up or close to normal...We aren't the sort to panic, but we did notice that in every country people did nothing but denounce the global change about which you think is just alarmist.

It matters not one way or another, because if you look behind every country's miserable loss of life, and flooding and disasters caused by weather change, you will find a government just like ours which is not willing or trying to do anything. So, relax and deal with the chicken littles."

POFTIDES makes the observation that weather is changing, then leaps to the conclusion that those changes are due to anthropogenic causes. That is an extreme anthropocentric point of view. (So is the belief that mankind can stop climate change.)

Flooding and other disasters have occurred for centuries. They aren't related to "weather" change as POFTIDES argues. There are much better ways to prevent those disasters than to limit the amount of anthropogenic CO2 released into the atmosphere. Moving population centers out of flood prone areas, for instance.

POFTIDES, if you find that reducing CO2 emissions is essential, you can make great strides in that regard by staying home.