Gwyn Morgan is cursed with bad timing, but remains determined to stay on the wrong side of history. In his July 23 fossil fuel/anti-environment spin exercise, this fossil-fuel businessman manages to criticize environmentalists and boost the fossil-fuel industry without once mentioning either climate change or global warming, never mind the human impact of those processes.
The fact is that what we are witnessing today in many parts of the world is the result of climate change — actually, climate chaos — driven largely by the combustion of Morgan’s beloved fossil fuels. And it’s going to get worse — probably much worse — before it gets better. The problem is not the environmentalists, it’s the fact that our warnings — dating back 50 years or more — were ignored, dismissed, ridiculed and downplayed by people like Morgan. The Club of Rome’s 1972 report “The Limits to Growth” anticipated that “the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years.”
Instead, they all chose to try to keep the whole crazy edifice of our industrial consumer economy going, regardless of the consequences — and they are still at it. As a result, we have probably lost any hope of managing a gentle transition to what the Science Council of Canada, in 1977, called a Conserver Society. But because of the shortsighted, pig-headed and self-serving opposition of the fossil-fuel industry and its many corporate and government fellow-travellers, we are running out of time.
Imagine how medieval our world would be without Fossil Fuel and the resultant advancement mankind has made in agriculture and medicine. It’s a stepping stone and a result of human ingenuity.
All they did was supply you with the products you wanted and were willing to pay for. No one held a gun to your heads. Just watch Europe this winter, you’ll get a chance to see life without. You’ll love it.
Trevor Hancock is from the Ivory Tower of Academia. That says it all.
For those of you wondering who Gwyn Morgan is:
Trevor Hancock & Branden Camp are hypocrites. Oil companies only responded to their endless demands for more and more oil, for cars, heat, food, transportation, insulation, shingles, and on and on. Stop demanding plastics, efficient cars, LEDs. Just stop.
'only a madman or an economist — or in this case, a retired business leader — “believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world.”' Indeed. At the current 1%/yr population growth rate, all solid surfaces on Earth would be packed with humans to a density of 🧵1/2