Everything we think we know about climate change is but a product of our view of things from inside the goldfish bowl which limits our view of the world around us. I do not recommend that you stick your head inside a goldfish bowl to test that theory. Take it from me that is a useful allegory of where we are today. How we got here and where did the goldfish bowl come from? Well that’s another question. Take my advice and find another view, or you will always be a goldfish, swimming around inside a glass prison, which you may never learn is mostly of your own making.
I was a goldfish like everyone else, but this little goldfish jumped out of the bowl, only to find there are oceans of water outside to swim in, and the view is tremendous.
As far as climate change is concerned, the view from the goldfish bowl permits only a history of 150 years to be seen in any direction. And a very blurred future. A view which is necessarily distorted. From outside, the view is very different.
Taken from the baseline view of 150 years, a slight rise in global temperatures (they never show you just how slight the increase actually is, even from that baseline) is blown out of all proportion to become something to fear. Something of a catastrophic nature. A catastrophe that must be acted upon and prevented from destroying life in the goldfish bowl.
But from outside the bowl the view is very different. The 150 years baseline is seen as hardly appropriate but well chosen as a deflector.
From outside we can see right back to the beginning of time, most of which is admittedly quite blurry in itself but, from the past half a billion years of history a very different picture emerges, which renders the goldfish bowl view to what it actually is. A deflector and distorter of the truth.
Everything was very different in the past, but to cut a long story short, the true baseline we should be viewing the present situation from is that of 13,000 years ago. That was when temperatures began to rise. Long before the past century or so. We can also look further into the past (about 130,000 years) to find that this is not the first time such things occurred – which gives us hope that we may be able to see what comes next. We can also see that further back in the recent past, some 60 million years ago (and many times in between), temperatures were much higher than they are today. Another cause for hope.
What I am trying to say is that the goldfish bowl view is not real. It is a distortion of the truth. I will leave it to you to decide whether that distortion is malevolently engineered or not.
I am not going to say any more just now. If you want more, I suggest you read my post ‘The Real Planetary Crisis – Is There One?’
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