Climate Change

[kandrathe]

Perhaps, I've personally always felt that the climate change was going to happen with or without human interference; we only helped it along.

By how much? 3% or is it 50% or is it 250%?

So based on what is known about climate change, it makes sense that if global sea levels do rise, that the coastal cities be thinking about the future even if its, ten, fifty, a hundred years from now.

People rebuild their homes after hurricanes blew them off a sand dune barrier reef, or when they get washed away from the basin of a flood plain. Venice and New Orleans were built in a swamp on purpose. People are arrogant when it comes to where they build.

But I forget how our legislative process works not only here, but in the world - legislature through crisis, or, out of sight, out of mind.

The illusion of politics is that they are looking out for anyone except themselves and their own reelection.

I hate how the social security debacle has shown how inept the current and former motley crew is we have in office; if they didn't touch that money, or better yet invested it to earn more instead of constantly taking out of social security, then the SS system would not be in dire straights. But nobody can see more than one election term into the future, and that's a fact!

Their excessive hot air does contribute to localized climate change at least.

And this is what makes this entire law a huge cachinnation of imbeciles because if water levels do rise unexpectedly, they will be fully unprepared. "Ten years from now? Let them worry about it then. I won't be in office that long. One-hundred years from now? Well hell, sunny, I won't even be alive then. Who cares?!? I will have used up all the natural resources I wanted to by then anyhow. Makes no difference to me." It's the unwillingness to look into the future that I'm dismayed about.

Our skill as a species has always been the ease in which we adapt to current challenges. We are not much different from other mammals in that regard. We have the capacity for prediction and prevention, but we seldom use that capacity and instead continue to cater to our present whims. It's the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper on a global scale.