First, Mr. Greene, I do not believe there is a “climate crisis” (My Turn, July 21).
Your hysteria emanating from some of your statements is not going to make me change my position.
You write about taking responsibility, yet in the first paragraph you put 100 percent of the blame on Exxon Mobile for creating your so-called crisis. “They should be held responsible,” you write. Why not blame the first settlers or Native Americans for burning wood for heat and cooking? Or blame the financiers who paid for ships to hunt whales, because they contained oil that provided light during the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Obviously, I’m being facetious.
Well, into the 20th century no one knew the concepts of “global warming or climate change.” The ’70s environmental movement morphed into “global warming” in the ’80s, which begat “climate change” 10 to 15 years ago.
Oil provided jobs for our grandparents, helped the Allies win world wars I and II, built most of the colleges in this country so people like you and me could take advantage and obtain a degree and provided modern plastics for computers, automobiles and all the kayaks you see lefties paddling in local rivers and lakes.
I have stated in the past: Global warming and/or climate change may or may not exist. Further, is it a total, undeniable certainty that these anomalies are caused by CO2 emissions? “No,” is my simple answer. You cannot ignore natural climate cycles or other planetary factors that may be the cause.
A real crisis: ISIS, domestic terrorism(see ISIS), attacks on police (our last line of defense against anarchy), black on black shootings (see Chicago), drugs (all around us), to name a few.
I would like to see Mr. Greene put his pen and mind to work on these real-time, immediate crises, that affect us all TODAY, NOW, not some hippy-dippy crisis that may happen in 50 or 100 years.
Jim Bates
Greenfield