The estimated U.S. responsibility for earth’s carbon output is only 15%. If the United States disappeared from the planet, virtually all man-made global warming would still occur from the remaining 85% in China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, etc.
Since the bemoaned catastrophic ice age of the 1970s, we’ve passed numerous “scientific deadlines” for the world’s end, every one of which was a tepid flop. Per NASA, since 1880, the earth’s temperature is up only 1 degree.
The environmental crowd's bottom line is always overpopulation — they claim too many children are killing the planet; global warming is but a symptom. It’s amazing to read all this “hot air” even in the other Salt Lake paper owned by a church whose canonized scripture includes such bold declarations as “marriage is ordained of God ... that the earth might answer the end of its creation” and “be filled with the measure of man,” “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,” and “there is enough and to spare.”
One needn’t be a “denier” to comprehend that making us all live in crowded cities and ride trains, doubling/tripling the national debt, remaking government for political gain in the name of saving the planet — and otherwise turning the American way of life upside down — is PC futility which will make no significant difference.
Paul Sharp, Salt Lake City