Climate warming can benefit all

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Neil Snarr wrote about the woes of anthropogenic “climate change” in which he especially assigns blame to the “explosion in human population numbers” along with other “vicissitudes of nature.” As a willing contributor, with 11 children, reasoned reply might be appropriate in defense of children and in contradiction to the hoopla about threats to the “environment,” a.k.a. “creation.”

Unnecessary government intervention and restriction upon human enterprise (and the creation of jobs and livelihoods) would be the tragedy we are facing.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (www.thegwpf.org) offers another assessment on over-regulation of human enterprise. As Dr. Tim Ball opines, “Sadly, the true cost is hard to estimate because it is impossible to measure the emotional costs to people losing their jobs, their homes, and their communities. What makes these costs even more egregious is that they were completely unnecessary.”

“Climate change” has occurred from time to time over the centuries, long before the industrial age. Terence J. Hughes, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences and Climate Change, University of Maine, writes that climate warming would be good, in balance. It would thaw frozen ground in the arctic and sub-arctic, opening vast lands to development/agriculture. “Greenhouse” warming gives plants carbon dioxide, which gives us oxygen, so agricultural production and food supplies will soar. If sea level does rise, it will be only a few feet over centuries and mankind can adjust. Increase of open seas will open vast new fishing grounds. Rebuilding port facilities and relocating coastal cities as sea-level rises will provide millions of jobs.

The “environment” is ultimately in the hands of the One who made all things for man and for His glory. I am told that this creation may well be abused — i.e. “judged” — by Creator Himself, when His land is defiled with the shedding of innocent blood of those created in His image. (Now there is a foreboding environmental threat!)

Best, then, to consider regulating our national behavior and prohibit that behavior which displeases Him. Do we defile the land with our sin? Shedding innocent blood and defiling holy marriage? And does He, or does He not, spew people out of the land that he gives them? (Indeed, an incentive to enforce law!)

Taking up this world view, we can press on with optimistic productivity rather than quench our human spirit of innovation, creation, and creativity.

Michael Bray

Wilmington

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