Over the years, defenders of the fossil fuel economy have steadfastly denied that global warming exists, in spite of the rapidly accumulating evidence for the reality of worldwide warming and climate change. Aware that their arguments wore increasingly thin, they crafted a second line of defense. They claimed that, if global warming did happen, it would make life better, not worse. Canada, for example, would become a balmy paradise.
This myth of a post-global warming paradise has been destroyed by the reality of mush.
Global warming is here. It has occurred, is getting worse, and is having serious, negative consequences.
One of those consequences is melting of ice in Arctic regions that is so consistent and so profound that it is causing wintertime roads, which used to run at least partly on frozen rivers, to become unusable. Arctic communities are thus becoming quite difficult to reach during the winter. Thus, global warming is endangering the survival of those communities.
If that is what the fossil fuel apologists regard as a paradise, we all ought to be worried when they talk to us about the wonderful world that petroleum will continue to bring us in the future.
