More Random Thoughts on Global Warming

W.H. Chellis

I suspect that climate change is being influenced by human activity. I also suspect that their are many other causes of climate change that are perfectly natural, not all of which are fully understood at this point in history.

Further, I am skeptical of attempts by the government to change the weather. They do not seem very good at accomplishing lesser goals. I doubt that the billions spent on reducing global warming would have much impact. There are better things to do with our money.

Still, I think we have reason to be concerned. God’s call to dominion is not a call to rape and destroy. I believe in free markets but the best of our free market economists understood that the things of primary importance must be placed beyond the destructive forces of the free market. The permanent things, things like faith, ethics, truth, goodness, and beauty do not hold up well in a free market environment. This is the problem of post-modern relativism. Everyone is free to purchase their own truth. The market sells plenty of interesting versions.

What about the environment? Can market forces help us achieve a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable environment? Or should our natural resources, like faith and truth, be beyond the reach of the highest bidder? I do not have an answer (although my tendency is to want to hear more about free market answers to our climate troubles).

Still, when I read “conservatives” debunking global warming, I cannot help but wonder if they are really attempting to “conserve” the worst of late modernism? I wonder.