Global warming: The new eugenics

The eugenics movement and the global warming movement are similar in many respects. Both ideas were introduced by scientists, advanced by politicians, popularized by the media, embraced as a moral necessity, resulted in severe consequences and eventually rejected as harmful hogwash.

Eugenics, thankfully, has run its course. Global warming, however, is approaching its zenith, just before imposing severe consequences, and is, perhaps, still a generation away from being rejected as the hogwash it is.

Global Warming and the Ice Age

The lead based toy scare and greenhouse effects I believe are cut from the same cloth. They are easy to sell and enact regulations upon, however they are weak on solving anything tangible. The billions of dollars spent on these initiatives would be better spent on things like figuring out what we can do to adapt to the upcoming ice age, or figuring out what toys improve a young child’s ability to be creative.

One thing to remember. Scientists, like presidents, politicians, doctors or lawyers, like to think in the short term. Spending on global warming initiatives by the Obama administration will certainly offer vast amounts of opportunities and grant monies to those same scientists who talk about greenhouse gasses.