I read with interest articles recently concerning climate change (a phenomenon that has existed for four billion years) and while I do not disagree with the assertions that we could all treat each other and our Earth better, I am not afraid of climate change.
Here's why. A quick Google search reveals what we are far more likely to die from, in this order: 1. Heart disease, 2. Cancer, 3. Chronic lower respiratory disease, 4. Stroke, 5. Accidents. We also have a serious drug epidemic at the local level.
People are tired of hearing doomsday predictions of global warming or cooling going back decades and seeing that none of them have come true, just as doomsday religious preachers have been proven wrong about the end of days.
Also problematic is that some of the loudest voices with big platforms such as Leonardo DiCaprio give speeches about the “dire” situation the Earth is in, then climb aboard fuel-guzzling yachts and drive their collectible gas-guzzling sports cars while living in energy-wasting mansions they don't need.
I am amazed that progressive states have not banned the construction of mansions in the name of the environment. But then again, a mansion brings in a lot of taxes to the local and state government. Is this a problem? I think it surely is!
I support us coming together more, stopping the assumptions about each other based on politics, race, sex, or any other differences, and doing more good together.
I also believe the time has come to stop trying to institute new taxes and fees in the name of the weather - measures that will not help anyone - and start focusing on what is really killing a majority of people.