David Strom writes for HotAir.com about a significant anniversary in the world of climate alarmism.
[A]s bad as the COVID myths were, I think it is safe to say that the Climate hysteria and all the downstream consequences of reshaping our lives and economies around a hysterical overreaction to an exaggerated problem are worse.
Millions of young people have had their mental health shattered, economies have been hobbled for decades, and the balance of the world economy has shifted toward China as manufacturing has migrated there. Germany is deindustrializing, the UK is committing economic suicide, and many of our major industrial powers have wasted trillions on useless technology.
As much as anyone, Al Gore has been a main cheerleader of what amounts to a death cult, and as The Wall Street Journal noted, the twenty-year anniversary of An Inconvenient Truth has arrived.
Gore made his political career out of hawking an imaginary climate apocalypse, and if you measure success by the influence one has on the world, one has to call Gore a major success. His hysteria has changed the course of history, although in much the same way that “visionaries” like Margaret Sanger and Paul Ehrlich have: much for the worse.
“As Mr. Gore’s Oscar-winning sci-fi classic “An Inconvenient Truth” observes its 20th anniversary on May 24, it would be far too easy to dub him the Chicken Little of climate change. The fowl of legend, unlike Mr. Gore, didn’t devise the means to profit spectacularly from his doomsday squawking. Mr. Gore has successfully convinced the political world to design subsidies, regulations and mandates that fattened his bank account by immense amounts.” …
… There are two generations or more that are substantially smaller and less mentally healthy because of climate change hysteria. I personally know quite a few younger people who declined to have children, or limited themselves to one, to save Gaia, or to prevent their having lived through an apocalypse.
