Recommended: Environmental Playacting

Heather MacDonald, who has written some other pretty incisive stuff, has an interesting article this morning entitled Environmental Playacting. She tells it like it is - the young talk big about environmentalism, but when it comes to giving up their own luxuries and habits it's another story.  She accuses the young in this piece, but I think it is just as true of the rest of us. As she points out, Al Gore, the poster boy for climate change, still flies between his various (five at last count) homes in his private jet. (9/16/2019 correction - Al no longer owns five homes, just four now. And he no longer owns a private jet, he just rents them)

One of the realities we must face in this climate change issue is that it is enormously difficult to change human habits or lifestyles. I learned this years ago when I was visiting my parents in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). There was a famine in part of the country and the US sent in rice supplies, but even though they were hungry the populace wouldn't eat the rice because it wasn't the kind they were used to.

It's easy for politicians to promise voters "green new deals" - words are cheap, and the money they want to spend isn't theirs. I'll be more impressed when those same politicians stop flying back and forth from their districts each week and give up their private cars and cell phones and fancy lunches made from stuff flown or trucked in from around the world and turn off their air conditioners.