Well, I think it is prudent to observe the actions of those who are trying to impose rules upon others.
If they are not following their own rules, as they expect others to, then there is reason to pay attention and question.
It is then as it appears to be. You are saying to everyone, why should we listen to them if these leaders are hypocrites? You are casting doubts upon the severity of the issues before us, because politicians are hypocrites. But it's not the politicians sounding the alarms, it's all the world's experts. They are not the politicians. The politicians are generally late to the party. The specialists are the ones that should be listened to.
You listen when a meteorologist tells you a tornado is likely and take appropriate action, don't you? If you saw the mayor run out into the field seeming to not understand the warning himself, do you then head out to the beach for the afternoon because he doesn't take it seriously himself? Isn't this the blind leading the blind?
It may be those in power don’t care about the common good at all, only their own good.
I remember in the 70’s we were warned an ice age was eminent if we didn’t give our tax dollars to address the problem. In the 80s, it was doom by the ozone hole and then destruction by acid rain if we didn’t give more money and make changes. After that, it was global warming. Now it is climate change. I certainly do not deny climate change.
What I hear in this is, 'why should I believe this, because they've said all sorts of things in the past, and we're all still fine today.' This is a form of denial. In reality all of these things were valid concerns, which have only all grown in intensity. Yet, people didn't want to believe it then, and not now. "Crisis, what crisis?", is the attitude of the careless.
This current climate change is due to global warming caused by unchecked human activity, driving by greed and a lust for money. In reality, we aren't be asked to give money to fix these things. We're being asked to shift where we spend our monies away from fossil fuels to safer and more renewable forms of energies which don't destroy this earth. But the fossil fuel industry pays lots of money to not have their piece of the money pie go to other forms of energy. They want to keep things the way they are, with zero regard to the planet, our health, and the future generations of our children's children. As a Christian, you should be offended by this as an act against God, like crucifying the Christ. It is an act against Life itself.
Can you tell me, based on any evidence, what the ideal temperature or climate should be for the earth?
What is was before we started filling the skies with greenhouse gasses. That's the equilibrium the planet had formed that allowed the world we have had for the past 15,000 some years now. The evidence this was ideal is the fact we were able to survive and thrive as we have since the last ice age. That is now changing, rapidly. And most people are still in denial, thinking it's not real. It is real. We are being faced with an immanent terminal diagnosis, and no one is taking it seriously. We are all complicit in this if we don't speak out against what we are doing.
BTW, it's understandable people are in denial of a serious potential terminal illness. But fear often just helps accelate us to the end, because we fail to act and prevent it becoming worse. We hasten our own demise through denialism.
