possible letter to ed. Ideas?

The sin of global warning—or just plain sin?

It’s common in newspapers to blame the drought on our carbon footprints, which is kind of like original sin, since all are guilty. 

It’s a very convenient truth after all; here’s why:

Human greed is always with us—originally as well as now.  But this is the first opportunity that the trend-setters have had to hold us all guilty, directly, for the state of the inhabitable earth; and this after less than a year of a drought; although it certainly gets worse by the day. (Snow, anyone?)

But this is not the first drought humanity has ever seen.  Over 1400 years ago the Khmer tribe had a huge empire in SE Asia which built the massive but now-deserted complex called Angkor Wat.  According to the National Geographic, this ruling tribe seems to have been destroyed, in the tropics, by two back-to-back 40 year droughts.  Was this because of man’s sin? Or its large carbon footprint?

Yes, and no.  The thing that the Khmer rulers had in common with us, besides overbuilding, is human sacrifice. It is also what we both also have in common with the Khmer Rouge—for those who have already forgotten, the latter were directly responsible for the killing fields of Cambodia.

Our society is built on the merciless conceit that our offspring are only a good thing if they are not, well, inconvenient.  And we have just massively voted our pocketbooks and our rights to be entertained to the highest bidder; as opposed to, for one moment, assuming responsibility for the massacre of our own children through “therapeutic” abortion.

Some therapy.  All of us are also guilty of this holocaust if only by doing little or nothing to stop a culture bent on destroying its soul.   First stop the slaughter; or watch us go the way of both Khmer killing machines.

And, oh, by the way:
“The majority is always wrong.”    --Ibsen

 

Sincerely,

 

William Schuler

Mendota  11/27/12