PUTNEY — What's up with Harvard's David Keith? He's been exploring the idea of taking “chemtrails” from the realm of conspiracy theory to cloudy reality, using aircraft to pump sulfates into the upper atmosphere (solar radiation management) - effectively shutting off all our solar panels. This, in order to fight “global warming.” Is he working for the oil companies?
Coal and oil companies are in the business of providing heat, for which I am extraordinarily grateful much of the year, living as I do in Vermont.
Odd, how we have allowed them to carelessly wreak environmental destruction around the world for decades: Politicians with heavily greased palms doling out mere slaps on the wrist for the filling of bodies of water with oil, for instance.
But the reason now given for them becoming the bad guys is “global warming,” and those of us who desire to be warm for half of the year are facing punishment with taxes, devised by the same greasy-palmed.
If our health-care debate had begun with the question “Why are so many people sick?,” would the answer have been a convoluted insurance scheme?
Why are we horrified (maybe we're not) when a hurricane or tornado wipes out a town in the U.S., or when some enraged person takes out a dozen people, but not horrified by leaders who regularly order the destruction of whole countries in completely bipartisan fashion?
How have we been able to entirely disconnect the migration crises everywhere from our foreign policy? And why should the whole world be held hostage to our petro-dollar?
Why do we have troops in 90 percent of the world's countries? Are we working slyly and doggedly to outdo Hitler, while distracting attention from this presence by loudly and incessantly accusing many of the world's other paltry leaders of emulating him?
Do people who are against abortion ever wonder if they're supplying the sex-trade industries with a steady stream of unwanted kids? (I know; I'm conflicted: Abortion doesn't bother me, but sending kids off to war does. I expect lots of people are anti-abortion and pro-war - and quite unreflective about it.)
Sitting here scratching my head incessantly...