The Gold Coast Bulletin

More genuine threats to humanity than warming

- PETER CAMPION

THE Indonesian tsunami is a stark reminder of the difference between real threats to people and imaginary ones.

The “Pacific rim of fire” is the most tectonical­ly active region on the planet and Australia’s east coast has copped tsunamis in the past. Tsunamis, therefore, are a real threat.

So in light of this, how much do we spend on hardening our infrastruc­ture against tsunami impact and on training our people in tsunami evacuation? Anything?

Then we’re told dangerous man-made global warming is the “greatest moral challenge of our time” and that our world will become an uninhabita­ble wasteland, and that billions of people will die unless we stop using fossil fuels.

But man-made global warming exists only in computer models and there are many recorded benefits of a warmer planet rich in CO2, – that gaseous plant food that makes up just .04% of our atmosphere and is essential to life.

Global warming, therefore, is an imagined threat.

And yet how much do we spend on weakening our energy generators and industrial base in response? Billions of dollars.

If we were fair dinkum about protecting ourselves from existentia­l threats, we’d be ploughing as much money as possible into tackling more genuine and more dangerous phenomena than a gradually warming Earth.

Things like superbugs, famine, weather events...even an asteroid hitting the planet.

To throw so much money at the unproven hypothesis of manmade global warming – with its record of failed prediction­s a mile long – is the height of insanity.

With very few exceptions, our politician­s have sold us out to an ideology-obsessed United Nations. It has to stop.

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