Crazy court misconstrues
constitution for climate-concerned kids
web posted April 23, 2018
Here is a headline that epitomizes
the times in which we are living: “The Ninth Circuit Just Allowed
Children To Sue Trump Over Global Warming.”
When you see a headline like that,
all you can do is shake your head in exasperation and scream out into the
ether, “Of course it did!” Because it’s the Ninth Circuit and that’s
where radical jurists dwell in a murky swamp of leftism from which they
undermine everything that ever made America great. (And the other
circuits aren’t much better.)
Of course, the Washington Post had a
different perspective: “A groundbreaking climate lawsuit against the federal
government by 21 children has been hailed by environmentalists as a bold new
strategy to press for climate action in the United States.”
Well, the left is nothing if not
“bold.” They’re willing to fight in the streets like rabid dogs, as well
as find endless other ways to disrupt normal life, all for what they believe
in, most of which is foolishly destructive. And the left-leaning district
and circuit courts go along with almost all of it.
In any case, this lawsuit, which was
originally filed in 2015 in an Oregon federal court by 21 youths and an
environmental group, argues that since the federal government knows about the
potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change, it has a
constitutional duty to take stronger actions in order to protect those children.
Constitutional duty? Is there
anything these leftists can’t find buried deep in the Constitution when trying
to promote their agenda? Abortion, homosexual marriage, climate change
protections, you name it. The only thing they can’t find is the Second
Amendment, which is actually there!
Anyway, it’s all about the precious
children that the left just loves and for whom it will do anything to
protect. Of course, the left also says that bringing more of them into
the world does irreparable harm to the environment since they will grow up to
become voracious consumers and spewers of climate-poisoning carbon
dioxide. In the meantime, though, they’ll gladly use the ones who are
already here to push their radical climate agenda.
By the way, can you imagine having
been worried about a fuzzy concept like “climate change” during your
childhood? Can you imagine that while you were out riding your bike
around the neighborhood, or playing ball in a vacant lot, or skipping rope, or
climbing trees, or rummaging around a construction site after hours, that you
would have been worrying about the temperature going up a couple of degrees by
the end of the century? I mean . . . seriously? Those of us of a
certain age grew up under the constant existential threat of nuclear
annihilation and never lost a minute’s sleep over it.
So what’s up with these children
today? Well, could it be that they’ve been so mollycoddled by a
therapeutic culture that they’re now afraid of their own shadows and so of
course they’re afraid of climate change as well? And could they be so
bored with their material well-being and technology-enabled trivial pursuits
that they have to latch onto preposterous crusades to try and fill a void in
their existence that used to be filled by transcendent callings such as
religion or patriotism?
But let’s just say, for the sake of
argument, that these climate-concerned kids are right about anthropogenic
global warming (aka the all encompassing “climate change”). Is it not
conceivable that man, with his incredible ingenuity, could find a way to adapt
to a slight rise in temperature?
In fact, you’d wish that these young
secular humanists would have the same attitude as Harvard progressive Steven
Pinker. In a report entitled “Enlightened Environmentalism,” he urges
climate change fanatics to get a grip and curtail all the hysteria. No
“climate denier” himself, he says that human ingenuity will allow us to adapt to
any climate change that may occur. He also says that industrialization
“has been good for humanity.”
About that, he says, “It has fed
billions, doubled life spans, slashed extreme poverty, and, by replacing muscle
with machinery, made it easier to end slavery, emancipate women and educate
children. It has allowed people to read at night, live where they want,
stay warm in winter, see the world, and multiply human contact. Any costs
in pollution and habitat loss have to be weighed against these gifts.”
Exactly! But do you think the
left, which has brainwashed these children, will listen? Of course not,
because the left is made up of perhaps the most clueless and ungrateful people
to have ever lived. With a twisted perception of history and no appreciation
for accrued wisdom, they are incapable of putting things into any kind of
reasonable perspective. They were fortunate enough to have been born into
a time and a civilization that affords more opportunity for material
well-being, good health, education, prosperity and justice than any other in
history. And yet, they have no understanding of or appreciation for how
that came to be and, bizarrely, perceive nothing but endless injustices and
looming ecological and climatological catastrophes. So they use propagandized
children in their insane battle against climate change and they find a wing-nut
judge in the Ninth Circuit to grant it legal legitimacy.
But exactly how are the beloved
children going to be better off if the United States, along with the other
advanced countries of the world, is forced to take the recommended measures
against the alleged climate change and destroy the world’s economy in the
process? Because you see, kids, for the modern economy, which has
provided so much prosperity and made your lives so easy, there is currently no
viable energy alternative to fossil fuels – except nuclear, which the left
hates almost as much as it hates capitalism. You can forget about solar
panels and as for windmills, you might as well be tilting at them. All the
utopian wishful thinking in the world can’t alter the laws of physics to make
those diffuse energy sources adequate.
If man-caused climate change is for
real, and if the consequences are going to be unavoidably catastrophic as the
fanatics insist, then the only way to ward it off is by an abrupt return to the
preindustrial age. Understand, we’re talking about a decidedly gritty,
untherapeutic time when most people survived by the sweat of their brow, there
were no child labor laws and life tended to be nasty, brutish and short.
Are you up for that, kids? Given the unprecedented and absurd fragility
of your generation, it’s difficult to imagine your adaptation would go well.
When it comes to climate change these
kids need to take Steven Pinker’s advice and chill out. The climate isn’t
going to kill you! How do you think mankind ever survived, especially in
the past when its ability to modify the environment was so limited?
But there are other serious concerns
for the children and for all of us – like the ruination of America and all of
Western civilization. The ideology that’s behind this “groundbreaking
climate lawsuit” and is shamelessly using these children is the same ideology
that relentlessly seeks to undermine or destroy everything that made our
civilization great. This war against fossil fuels and climate change is
really just a proxy war against capitalism and Western values. This is
what the children ought to be quaking in fear over.
But naturally, children aren’t
mature, knowledgeable or wise enough to understand that. The left takes
advantage of that, along with their youthful emotionality, in order to make
their undeveloped minds impervious to reason and more susceptible to its
impossible utopian schemes. The best thing for children these days is to
be shielded, as much as possible, from insidious leftist propaganda.
Unfortunately, that’s a very tall order given that the left has very nearly a
stranglehold on public education at all levels, not to mention most of the
media and the culture.
One thing’s for certain. If the
left wins the ideological war that is raging all around us and succeeds at
tearing down the greatest civilization in history, the last thing anyone will
be concerned about is the climate.
By the way, this just in: “A New Study Could DestroyDoomsday
Climate Change Forecast.”
Huh! So, maybe the
science wasn’t “settled” after all. But then, only an imbecile or an
extreme ideologue could have ever believed that the world’s most laughably
inexact science was anything even remotely close to being “settled.” Nonetheless, don’t expect this new
study to cause climate fanatics to so much as raise an eyebrow or look askance. 
Greg Strange can be reached at gpstrange30341@yahoo.com. (c)
2018 Greg Strange.