By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives July 17, 2017
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The climate movement , not least in cities, is right now in the tradition of all the great moral causes that have improved the circumstances of humanity throughout our history. The abolition of slavery. Women’s suffrage and women’s rights. The civil rights movement and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The late Nelson Mandela said it was always impossible until it was done. The movement to stop the toxic phase of the nuclear arms race and more recently the gay rights movement. Some of you may disagree with that. I don’t. I did earlier in my life. But all of these movements have one thing in common. They all have met with ferocious resistance and have generated occasional feelings of despair from those who knew the right direction and wondered whether we could ever get there. The late Martin Luther King Jr once said to a supporter in the bleakest hours who asked, How long is this going to take? He replied, How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever. Because the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice. How long? Not long. The late economist Rudy Dornbusch said things take longer than you think but then they happen much faster than you believed they could.
That’s the inflexion point we are now at but it requires leadership from cities and remember that years from now, there will be a future generation that inherits the earth we bequeath to them and they will ask one of two questions. If they live in a world of political disruption and chaos and diseases, stronger storms and more destructive floods and worse droughts and sea level rise forcing retreat from coastal cities and political chaos, they would be justified in looking back at us and asking, “What were you thinking? Couldn’t you hear what the science was saying? What Mother Nature was screaming at you?”A couple very deranged things stand out here. The first is the reference to "what the science was saying" and "what Mother Nature was screaming at you." Mother Nature doesn't exist and can't scream anything. Science is a method, not a willful being. I don't know if Gore still pretends to be a Christian, but he is turning things into gods and given them moral authority when in fact they don't even exist in the form he presents. Second, by naming slavery as the first analogy he considers worthy, Gore has chosen a matter that took a war to resolve. Is the left so committed to global warmism that it would go to war over it? I believe they are, but in order to understand that, you have to understand what this is really all about.
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