Chicken Little

April 9, 2006 at 11:02:59 p.m.

Most everyone has heard the story of Chicken Little who ran around yelling, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!” Well, the sky is still there, but the Chicken Little’s of the world are still at it.

Case in point: Global Warming.

Climatologists have clearly stated that the temperature of the earth has increased 1 degree in the past 100 years. One degree!!! That hardly qualifies for all this wild yelling that the earth is getting hotter.

Be reasonable, people. Let common sense rule.

Earth is a living, changing planet. It breathes, and moves and convulses according to the Laws of Nature. It has a long history of getting colder and getting warmer and all of those changes are a NATURAL function of this living globe we call home.

That is not to endorse the foolish and greedy way we treat it and there is certainly a very real need for those of us who are living here to do our best to keep this planet in the healthiest condition possible.

For all the benefits that came to us from the development of the internal combustion engine doesn’t mean that in producing that engineering marvel that it is the end-all of our need to go further and produce more efficient means to support our demanding life styles. But replacing engineering and scientific know-how with panic based pronouncements is hardly the intelligent way of doing it.

When God made human-kind it was not a celestial experiment. Included in our basic structure was the wisdom and tenacity to address and solve whatever problems may confront us. No problem is unsolvable and we need to remember that every knot was once a straight rope. So, there is a need at every level of our society to utilize this God-given power to meet the issues that life on earth present to us.

I was watching a TV show a few nights ago and the producer was covering a gathering of “environmentalists”. For the most part, it appeared that these were young men and women who were raising the call for some great effort to “save us all.” One of the members of the program’s staff had a clipboard and was asking for signatures from the participants to sign an endorsement to rid the earth of H20. No one who was approached refused to sign the document. The only problem is that H2O is WATER! ‘Nuff said!…GT