The “Support the Green New Deal” hysterics really should devote some of their hand-wringing time to self-education. Start with “History of Earth” in Wikipedia and follow the links. You will find the Earth has been hotter in the past than it is now — some scientists believe that palm trees and crocodiles have lived north of the Arctic Circle; and also much colder, with ice reaching almost to the equator. You may find that the hill along which runs Mill Plain Boulevard is in fact a massive gravel bar deposited during the Missoula floods, the result of the melting of glaciers, which covered much of North America as little as 20,000 years ago.
Evidence indicates the Earth has been sliding slowly into a period of glaciation for the last 3 million years. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if man’s activities, beginning with farming 8,000 years ago, have inadvertently added just enough CO2 to our atmosphere to allow us to wear T-shirts in the summer rather than head-to-toe furs?
Or would you prefer to starve on top of an ice sheet, unable to escape to Mexico because they built a wall?
If self-education is too much work, please don’t vote.
