Think back to all those western movies of our youth : and envision today's climate deniers as the mining barons back then with today's climate renewers as the farmer settlers.
Farmers husband their soil , 'renewing' it and they expect to have at least a dozen generations of family occupying the family farm.
In a word, they settle - they commit to something and stick with it, fight hard to keep it alive forever.
Today's farm is Earth 1.0 : for the renewers, it is Life's only known foxhole in a hostile universe, and only "if you know a better 'ole , should you go to it" is their attitude to talk of Mars colonies if the Earth bellyflops.
Renewable energy will let them farm this piece of ground forever : hence 'renewers' .
By contrast, the deniers have staked their future on non-renewable energy. And at first blush, that sounds impossible : perpetual (future) supplies of something that is non-renewable and hence by definition destined to run out ?
But not to the prospecting mind: they deny all thought of any resource really running out.
They do the running out and running away.
To a denier, a nonrenewable only runs out in England - and then in Boston - then Kansas - then California and then China ,then Kuwait and then Nigeria and then ??????
Then Mars and then Venus and then Jupiter and then the Stars and the next Galaxy : ever onward.
Eternally cutting and running ; externally raping and running away but without ever running out of non-renewable/ non-recyclable minerals and fuels.
The opposite of commitment to a home, a farm, a family.
Eternal male teenagers,in other words, always fancy free and foot loose.
Once the Earth is mined out for its hydrocarbons, "who cares about CO2 in the air - that's no different than waste tailings in rivers and streams , now is it ?"
Denier-watchers are wasting jaw muscles thinking that once these denier fellers realize the earth is in real danger, they will cut back use of hydrocarbons.
Nonsense, they'll use them up all the quicker, once they realize the whole shooting match is in the pooper : de-investing in The Earth Project and moving up investment schedules for The Mars project.
Instead of telling these people that The Earth Project is in trouble, we should be taking them on to demonstrate The Mars project is in trouble.
That might just be more fruitful......
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- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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