by Thomas Craig
Every so often, America finds itself in a position where we look back and say, "why the heck did we do that"? Unfortunately, this always occurs AFTER we go ahead with some idea that seemed really good at the time. Well my friends, we actually have the luxury right now of being confronted with one of these super ideas and if we are loud enough, perhaps we can stop a bad idea before it makes things worse. In President Obama's ongoing adventure of "Barack and the Super-Friends save the world", there is now a proposal to combat global warming using what the President's science advisor calls "Geo-engineering". Now I'm not one of those people who claim global warming is a lie, and I'm certainly not one of the nut-bags who pray to Al Gore and hold my Captain Planet ring close to my heart at all times. Does global warming exist? I don't know. The only difference between Al Gore and myself is that I admit I don't know and I'm not making millions off terrifying millions around the world. At the very least, I don't argue with the global warming nuts because with every effort to make America more "green", we pull ourselves away from foreign oil and create jobs at home. Not a bad thing at all, I only wish all liberal rhetoric had such wonderful outcomes. John Holdren, the President's science advisor, believes that the global warming epidemic is so catastrophic that the White House is considering drastic measures to "cool" the Earth. Now listen, I do believe that the Bush Administration far too often cast aside scientific data in favor of ideology. Not a great idea but it is far safer than a liberal agenda of implementing radical experiments to which we could not possibly predict the consequences for. Our Planet has a remarkable ability to heal itself. If we can cut down on pollution, I'm sure it will make it that much easier for the Planet to heal itself. These ideas, such as shooting sulfur particles into the upper atmosphere to replicate a volcano erupting and blocking out the sun thereby cooling the Earth, is one of those ideas that we would look back on and ask ourselves, "why the heck did we do that?" There is also a plan to plant artificial trees which capture and store pollutants. If only nature could come up with something so creative. You know, something like, REAL TREES. Listen, if it makes people feel better to plant a fake tree, go for it. I even accept the fact that it will most likely cost taxpayers billions of dollars. I'm for it as long as it keeps the Government away from some crazy experiment that will result in consequences much worse than what we started with. Mother Nature will take care of itself, let’s help it, but let’s not be so naive to think that the only way it will survive is with a coveted Obama bailout.
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