ROLL ON SPRING; I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS WINTER

Europe and America are still in the grips of cold bleak weather with no sign of Spring arriving just yet. The Southern Hemisphere has been basking in one of best summers on record. The Copenhagen get together in January ended up a disaster for the Al Gore lovers. The Northern Hemisphere weather could not have been better timed to prove all those brain boxes wrong who led us to believe global warming will ravage the world sooner rather than later. After visiting China several times in the last decade, I have had the bad experience of sand storms in Beijing, choking air in Tianjin and polluted fog that lasts all day in Shenyang. Why don’t Gore and his greenie buddies take China on because it is their absolute disregard for the environment which will be the cause of future problems relating to the ecological balance of the world?

Now I am a believer in saving the whales and I am concerned about the depletion of stock in the world’ fishing grounds, but when it comes to idiots telling me that cow farting is going to ruin the ozone layer it puts much into perspective for me. The world is going nuts listening to these university types who seemed to get paid to seek publicity instead of teaching students to become productive citizens. Battery driven cars pose more problems to the environment once their batteries reach the end of their life and need to be disposed of than a gasoline driven car with its emissions. Just like old computers, they will be exported to the rubbish dumps of China for “recycling”. There we will see children standing over Bunsen burners separating all the chemical elements that make up a lithium battery.

This carbon trading nonsense is just nonsense. I would love to claim the cowboys Wall Street were behind it, but it was the liberal left wing tree hugging loonies who convinced European and other socialist governments it was a great idea. I cannot think that by rewarding a company/country for converting from gasoline to ethanol is a good deal for the world. Converting grazing land into corn fields poses more environmental risk than sucking oil out of the ground. What’s more the cost of ethanol (unless it is government subsidized) is such most of the world could not afford top fill their cars with it!

When are we going to see common sense prevail in our desire to protect the world’s environment? I say we start by boycotting all crap that comes out of China. That would solve 50% of the problem virtually right away. If it means Wal-Mart goes out of business, then great. I couldn’t wish for a better casualty in the fight to reduce pollution.

Tags: America, China, E.U., Wall Street