Unforeseen Contingencies

My friend, hunting partner, and former housemate Dr. H. Sterling Burnett has a great piece on American Thinker.  The website Web MD posted a bit of climate socialist propaganda that claimed, among other things, that AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is a major health threat that will cause our food sources to dwindle, potentially killing millions.  Sterling takes WMD to task for this fiction, and his piece is definitely worth your time.

I chimed in on an email Sterling sent to a few of us who follow his work,and added the following:

 "...this climate change madness needs all the pounding we can give it.  The WMD propaganda is baseless (the actual piece laments winters and summers that are too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry... claiming all must be caused by climate change, apparently assuming there never was bad weather before).  Even worse, it promotes the "organic" idiocy and complete elimination of fossil fuels.  But consider that:

•  The average American farmer feeds about 160 people, using modern methods.
• 100% of farmer equipment is powered by fossil fuels, and there's no "green" replacement
• 100% of truck transport to move food to urban populations is powered by fossil fuels, and there's no "green" replacement
• Almost 100% of fertilizers are made from fossil fuel feedstocks, and there's no "green" replacement
• 100% of pesticides are made from fossil fuel feedstocks, and there's no "green" replacement
• Organic farming with has substantially lower yields for staple crops, e.g 34% for wheat, and that assumes the producer has *access to fossil fuels* (for implements, equipment, transport, etc.)  as well as the specialized knowledge needed for this specialized form of agriculture.

The rogue elephant that WMD ignores is the 'Green New Deal' insanity proposed as the alternative to modern agriculture.  If implemented, GND would starve millions of Americans; if WMD really were about promoting health & well-being, GND would be the target.  This is also why I'm skeptical of analyses that say 'GND would cost $X trillion.'  It would be better measured in terms of numbers of deaths, b/c sufficient food and energy for other uses wouldn't be available at any price."

I can send sources for the points above to anyone who wants them.

This is a crucial point.  The climate socialists are proposing policies akin to those of Mao Tse-tung's "Great Leap Forward," which caused the greatest famines of the twentieth century, likely exceeding those of Joseph Stalin's Holodomor.  If the climate socialists' hubris is allowed free reign, they'll give Mao's record a run for the money.

Photo: Cows in corn.  Both will be things of the past if Green New Deal is implemented.