I wish I can say that soon about my deeply desired move Canada too, but for now, I mean just the blog. My blog now has its own home at www.KushalSharma.com.
After much wrestling with pending assignments and client calls, I have finally been able to settle on a clean and minimalist theme and port my entire blog to my own domain. All the posts on this blog now appear with all their comments intact on the new website so we can start where we left off without a glitch.
Check it out and let me know how you like it!
Go Canada!
I know, I’m in India and a I’m a very ardent fan of the Constitution of the United States; however, even I couldn’t help feeling sad over the way the current leaders of the US are throwing that beautiful and prosperous country down the drain.
Moreover, since after much deliberation and careful thought, I applied for an immigration to Canada and not the US, it’s very encouraging for me to see that Canada is hitting all the right notes in terms of having a freer economy. For example, here are the different areas in which Canada beat the United States:
Business Freedom: Canada has a 96.5 rating vs the US, which has 91.3
Trade Freedom: Canada, 88.1 vs the US, 86.9
Fiscal Freedom (Taxes): Canada, 76.7 vs the US, 67.5
Property Rights: Canada, 90 vs the US, 85
Freedom from Corruption: Canada, 87 vs the US, 73
In other words, in Canada you’re much freer to operate your own business, you pay less in taxes, your property rights are more secure, and you have better freedom from corruption.
The only areas where Canada loses out is in Government spending. I can live with that.
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day when the thought struck me — with all the revolution in devices that help us gain information quickly, would there ever be a time where we wouldn’t need to learn anything at all? Or, to phrase this idea better, the process of learning would become automatic and instantaneous.
In fact, people have already imagined it before, and it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch at all. For instance, we saw the guys in The Matrix learn stuff by merely downloading the relevant program straight to their brain while they were plugged into the Matrix. Thanks to nano technology, this is something that the scientists can actually aspire to implement in real life.
Nano particles are so tiny that they are lighter than air and can move through our body cells. While reading up the concept of “superhuman” or as referred to in transhumanist literature, “posthuman,” I found out that it may be possible to use nano machines as a substitute for our immune system, to aid tissue regeneration, or for any other such super abilities. One of those abilities could also be to interface with the relevant areas of our brain to help us “download” — for lack of a better word — knowledge of certain things as and when we needed it.
In an age like that, the only thing people would have to do is to learn how to learn; in other words, learn how to download data to their brain. Once they learn that, all the knowledge of the world would be at their disposal. If this is the “Information Age,” the next one could be the “Application Age” — yes, I just coined this phrase. Once our civilization has matured enough to make the traditional process of acquiring knowledge obsolete, the only thing that will differentiate one man’s ability from another is the ways in which each chooses to apply the knowledge.
Of course, you might say “no matter how much knowledge we collect, there will always be things about the universe that we don’t know, therefore, we will always have the need to acquire new knowledge.” To that I’d say, you’ve misunderstood my idea. Even though we call this an “Information Age,” it doesn’t mean that we have perfected the means of sharing information or that we’ve uncovered all the information the universe has to offer. It only means that the industry has been changed such that today we find information as far more important than it ever was in the past. In this age, we’ve far more access to information than we ever had before. However, the process of storing it in our brains is still the same — we either read it, see it, hear it, or work on it, and that’s how we learn. This will change in the Application Age. Then, we will have perfected the means of storing information in our brains to the point where it becomes as simple as clicking a button or sending a simple neurosignal to begin the process of download.
Imagine the kind of changes this will bring about in the structure of our society. For example, issues like:
- What will government-funded public schools teach?
- While politicians create issues related to reservation in schools and government jobs at the moment, will they will start lobbying for granting everyone the “right” to obtain this brain equipment for free in the future?
- What will the Pope say? Of course, we probably know the answer to that. Just like how Christians aren’t supposed to use condoms, I guess they’ll have to stay dumber than the rest of us too
Anyway, this topic is too exhaustive to cover in the space of one post. If you have something to add to this, please feel free to write a comment or send me an email.
Okay, I was fooled by the name “Rakesh Roshan;” I didn’t realize that he had nothing to do with the story or the film’s direction. I rarely watch Hindi movies, but I do make an exception depending on the star cast or the director involved with the project. This time, it was the director — or so I thought.
Anyway, so here’s a two-line gist of the movie: one gold digger meets another gold digger, and they both sort of screw around with a rich, criminal family in Las Vegas. The family finds out, and screws their lives over in return. End of story.
Now, take that script, throw in a Spanish-speaking hottie to lure the males, the Greek God-like body of Hritik Roshan to woo the girls, and a truckload of cheesy lines like “I don’t know what part of the world you come from, but you’ve become my whole world now,” and you’ve got a piece of Bollywood cinema, which Hritik Roshan claims is “different.”
I have absolutely no idea why we’re supposed to like or even empathize with the characters. The hero is a mediocre con artist of sorts who marries foreign women, helps them get the green card, and charges them money for it. As if that wasn’t enough to make him a total douchebag, he wants to marry a rich girl so he can live his life on her money and never have to be poor again.
Seriously? An Indian who’s a great dancer and knows magic tricks, and he can’t find a good job in the US, you’re friggin kidding me right? And I’m supposed to feel sympathy for him cause he falls in love with another woman who’s trying to marry a rich man so she can become rich and help her family out of poverty. Wow, real touching stuff.
To make things even more dramatic, there’s a friend who helps the protagonist — we really need to redefine the terms here — find clients to marry, and also gives his life up to help him procure foreign passports so the love birds can fly away to a different place and live happily ever after. Honor among thieves huh!
Finally, I guess the filmmakers really wanted to make something different, so after giving us two lovers with high aspirations and loose morals — real innovative stuff — they decided that after two hours of painful struggle (painful for the audience) the story should NOT end well. You can probably guess what happens at the end, can’t you?
Yes, I know I didn’t say “spoiler alert” at the beginning of this review… You’re welcome.
P.S.: I spent the equivalent of $7.00 to buy two tickets for this movie, and I’d like to apologize to the Indian goddess of wealth, “Laxmi,” for splurging her blessings this way.
I’m not sure how these guys got my email ID — perhaps from my blog after reading my post against Obama’s healthcare bill — but I received an email from “Single Payer Action” asking me to donate some money to their allegedly great cause. The language in their email reminded me of the typical we-don’t-want-profits-but-only-what’s-good-for-America political crap we hear so much these days. Therefore, I went to their website to understand what it really was. Here’s what it says about “Single Payer”:
- Right now we have many hundreds of payers.
- They are called insurance corporations.
- We would get rid of them.
- And replace them with a single payer.
- Instead of paying premiums to private for profit insurance companies like Aetna, CIGNA, and Wellpoint, we would all pool our money into one public insurance pool.
- We would be paying the same or less than we are paying now.
- Save $400 billion a year in administrative overhead, waste and profits.
- Use that money to insure everyone — cradle to grave.
- You get an insurance card.
- And it gets you into to see any doctor or any hospital.
- Anywhere in the country.
- No bills. No co-pays. No deductibles.
I guess they left out a few more points:
- No more an ability to pay a private doctor for a quick treatment even if you wanted to
- Waiting in line for your turn no matter what even if it means your stage 1 cancer metastasizes in the meanwhile and kills you
- Another giant leap towards converting the USA to the USSR
- To sum things up, jump out of the frying pan and straight into the fire
They say they are “sick of health insurance companies jacking up premiums while their health insurance company CEOs make out like bandits.” Wow, do they still teach basic economics in the USA? If they do, do they teach it at the high school level or only at the college level? If it’s the latter, that would probably explain why so many of these people who want to change things in America are almost always talking out of their asses.
Not only are these people clueless about basic economics, but also the basic definition of “right to life.” A “right to life” is only meant to free you from people who want to kill you; it’s not meant to tie other people into paying your medical bills and ensuring that you live. When the insurance companies pay more towards your bill than you paid for insurance, it’s not because they think it’s their duty to pay your bills. They’re able to do it because of the beauty that a free market is.
You see, there are always at a point of time more insured people who won’t fall ill than those who do. Therefore, insurance companies have surplus funds they can use to pay for the claims of people who do tend to fall ill and need it.
You might ask if it isn’t similar to Single Payer or Social Security. No it’s not. When there are private insurance companies competing with one another in the market, people have a choice whether or not to buy a particular company’s insurance policy. This choice is exactly what “freedom” is all about. If you wish to make a smart choice about your future life, you have to learn how to do it and find the right insurance policy for yourself. If someone defrauds you, you can sue them, but you can’t force companies to provide you cover for things they didn’t agree to in the first place.
Healthcare is a need not a right, and the means to satisfying that need must be earned just like how you must earn money to buy food or clothing. But of course, you can’t expect any proponent of government spending to ever understand or accept this.
If this charade of “public service” goes on, I guess it won’t be long before another group comes up and says, “instead of putting our paychecks in private for profit banks, we would put all the money in a single public fund, which experts will redistribute among the entire population according to people’s ‘needs’.” Everyone in and nobody out, right? Moreover, having a single public fund in place of a million private individual bank accounts too would definitely save billions of dollars in “administrative overhead, waste and profits.”
The SinglePayerAction.org homepage proudly boasts of its 1,000,000 supporters. In other words, apart from the millions of stupid people who support Obama’s healthcare reform, there are at least a million more who hate America even more than their democrat brothers. Sure, I know they aren’t exactly against their own country, but they are among those people whose good intentions are paving the road to hell for America.
Most Indians think Americans are dumb when it comes to many things that Indians have a natural flair for — multiplying numbers without using a calculator, operating cell phones, or using computers. However, I always hated it when I saw my colleagues or other fellow Indians use this to make themselves feel good about our system, which I don’t think even features in the same league as that of the USA, let alone beat it. Now I’m beginning to wonder how long this will remain true.
If anyone knows how to use guilt to make people do things they wouldn’t do in a million years otherwise, it’s Barack Obama. During their elections, Americans had two choices: to accept the unfair accusation that they’re racist and therefore won’t choose a black president, or to vote for Obama and feel good about it.
The fact that a Russian woman warned Americans about this tactic nearly seven decades ago is no coincidence; read the following passage:
“The soul, Peter, is that which can’t be ruled. It must be broken. Drive a wedge in, get your fingers on it–and the man is yours. You won’t need a whip–he’ll bring it to you and ask to be whipped. Set him in reverse–and his own mechanism will do your work for you. Use him against himself. Want to know how it’s done? See if I ever lied to you. See if you haven’t heard all this for years, but didn’t want to hear, and the fault is yours, not mine. There are many ways. Here’s one. Make man feel small. Make him feel guilty. Kill his aspiration and his integrity. That’s difficult. The worst among you gropes for an ideal in his own twisted way. Kill integrity by internal corruption. Use it against itself. Direct it toward a goal destructive of all integrity. Preach selflessness. Tell man that he must live for others. Tell men that altruism is the ideal. Not a single one of them has ever achieved it and not a single one ever will. His every living instinct screams against it. But don’t you see what you accomplish? Man realizes that he’s incapable of what he’s accepted as the noblest virtue — and it gives him a sense of guilt, of sin, of his own basic unworthiness. Since the supreme ideal is beyond his grasp, he gives up eventually all ideals, all aspiration, all sense of his personal value. He feels himself obliged to preach what he can’t practice. But one can’t be good halfway or honest approximately. To preserve one’s integrity is a hard battle. Why preserve that which one knows to be corrupt already? His soul gives up its self-respect. You’ve got him. He’ll obey. He’ll be glad to obey–because he can’t trust himself, he feels uncertain, he feels unclean.”
These are the words the main antagonist in The Fountainhead says to one of his victims. That’s the secret of his power over others. And with regards to America’s current political makeup, Ayn Rand saw it coming.
In fact, forget Ayn Rand; when politicians were creating thousand pages-long bills and pushing for their approval faster than people had a chance to even read them, wasn’t anyone reminded of this passage from their Declaration of Independence?
“He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.”
Or perhaps Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers are merely a faint memory for the Americans now. Why else would they pretend to swear by their name and yet blatantly ignore everything they stood for?
I admit that there is already an uproar in several places against this bill. And perhaps it will be repealed soon enough too. But regardless of what happens now, every American — who’s serious about the “freedom” that they so allegedly love in their country — should look in the mirror and ask themselves what the hell they’ve been doing for the past 10 years.
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Jeffrey Perren is one of the writers I admire a lot, and he has some great posts that show what kind glaring insult to humanity this move by American politicians represents. Head over to his blog here to take a look.
So it takes a number of hacking attempts and possible human rights violations to make Google realize that the Chinese government isn’t just out to “protect” its citizens from damaging information like pornography.
Didn’t Google get a good idea of Chinese policies when they arrested Hu Jia for criticising them and put his wife and infant daughter under house arrest last April?
The court’s verdict against Hu stated, “Hu spread malicious rumors and committed libel in an attempt to subvert the state’s political power and socialist system.” Sure, since your communist system is the best in the world, any attempt to criticize it would naturally amount to spreading “malicious rumors.” Funny how these kind of things only affect people in the East. I wonder why the state’s political power didn’t get overturned in the US despite a complete freedom to call President Bush a jackass even while he was in the office. But I digress.
Anyway, Google has finally realized that “don’t be evil” includes protecting people’s right to public information. They’re now showing uncensored results to Chinese citizens by redirecting them to another of Google’s websites if they search for banned keywords.
Of course, some will say that Google is blinded by greed, and now that their own system is under attack, they’re backing off — not because they’ve realized that they shouldn’t support China’s repressive policies. But that’s not the point. If Google really was greedy — in its actions as much as it supposedly was in its intentions — it would have realized that laws in China are dangerously unstable and that the Government that doesn’t honor its citizens rights to criticize its policies can easily renege on its commitment to a foreign company no matter how many documents you sign with them.
In fact, if what Jim Chanos has predicted is right, we might soon be seeing a meltdown in China, something which no “greedy” industrialist would want to be a part of.
Sure, China may have granted some economic and social freedoms in order to attract foreign investors, but the ugly truth about their facade is that the Communists still control the entire country. If they realize their economy is going down, their billion slaves-driven factories will flood the whole world with cheap goods in order to earn some quick bucks. That practice is obviously not sustainable, but it will destroy the markets worldwide anyway.
In fact, China has such vast reserves of foreign currency, that if they start selling it out in frenzy, all the fake currencies in the world such as the US Dollar can collapse in no time.
As far as Google goes, I’m happy more than I’m surprised.
Note: Despite what you might think after reading this review, there are barely any spoilers in it.
Whenever I pick up a new book, I go through its back cover to see if there’s an outline mentioned somewhere. When I picked up The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, I did the same thing, and one of the reviews printed on the back cover caught my attention. It said:
‘… an excoriating piece of work, relentless in its stripping away of the veneer of “India Rising” to expose its rotting heart.’
And here’s what gave me a kick: as I went back to the front cover and flipped a couple of pages, I saw the disclaimer that said, “This novel is entirely a work of fiction…”
When a smoker buys a pack of cigarettes and reads the statutory warning written on it in tiny letters, “smoking is injurious to your health,” what’s the first thing that comes to his mind? To rephrase the question, does anyone really think that the cigarette manufacturer wants us to take the warning seriously?
I felt the same way about that disclaimer, and after reading the book, I’m even more certain about it. The kind of two Indias described in it are probably way truer than most of my fellow Indians would have the courage to admit.
Whether or not the story described in it is true, the picture is much too real. Or, as I would say to another Ayn Rand admirer, this book is as much a work of fiction as We The Living is not Ayn Rand’s autobiography.
The book is in the form of a long and fictitious letter the author writes to the Chinese Premier, who’s about to visit India. The author writes this letter in order to describe the stark contrast between the real India and the India that will be presented to the Premier during his visit here.
The author accomplishes that by narrating his own story — his journey from the wretched lanes of a small town named Laxmangarh where he spent his days working on a tea stall, to Bangalore, where he currently owns a successful transportation agency.
Does anyone who’s read The Fountainhead remember Gail Wynand? I know, it’s a rhetorical question.
The author comes across as a figure quite similar to Wynand, although not as polished or grandiose as Ayn Rand’s characters usually are. However, the basic essence is the same. He is a self-taught man who’s learned all his lessons by extremely practical means — such as eavesdropping on customers’ conversations at the tea stall, offering to drive someone’s car for free just to find himself a job, and sitting by the street in Electronic City in Bangalore trying to understand where he could be useful in the outsourcing industry to name a few.
Gail Wynand’s success in The Fountainhead begins after he writes an editorial destroying a good man. The author — named as Balraam in The White Tiger — begins his entrepreneurial stint in a similar, although more literal manner.
The White Tiger is a raw, darkly humorous, and mocking account of how the lines between a poor man and an animal can get blurred out in some parts of India. If you’ve seen Slumdog Millionaire and think that you know bad things can get in some places, wait till you read about the life of poor people in Laxmangarh or New Delhi in The White Tiger. Wait till you read how Socialism, which is supposed to be a system meant to reduce the difference between the rich and the poor, ends up doing the exact opposite. You’ll see how it replaces the so called class difference present in a capitalist society with something unimaginably monstrous — a virtual master-slave relationship.
The author calls this phenomenon as the Rooster Coop. He describes it as,
“the roosters in the coop [at the slaughterhouse] smell the blood from above. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them. They know they’re next. Yet they do not rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop.
“The very same thing is done with human beings in this country… A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 per cent — as strong, as talented, as intelligent in every way — to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man’s hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.”
Later on, he says,
“that [to break out of the coop] would take no normal human being, but a freak, a pervert of nature. It would, in fact, take a White Tiger.”
Balraam’s life takes him to a number of places, and he comes to a point where he begins to realize that he has only two choices — to remain imprisoned for the rest of his life like an animal he saw at the zoo or to do something bad, immoral, and definitely criminal, and buy a new lease on his life. Guess what he chooses.
Oh, but I almost forgot to mention! One of his nicknames is The White Tiger.
The last cab ride I had was one I would probably not forget for a long time to come.
I had to go pick my friend up from Thane — an adjoining district to Mumbai in India — so I was out looking for a cab, and when I saw one vacant, I asked the cabbie if he’d be willing to give me a ride. The cabbie said that he was waiting for a passenger who had just dropped by to a store and was en-route to the airport. However, the airport being quite close to where I was standing, he said he could be back in 15 minutes if I had the time.
I did have the time, so he gave me his mobile number to let him know if I wanted to leave before he returned. I waited, and just as he had promised, he was back within 15 minutes. As soon as I got into the cab, he asked me, “how much is 200 dollars?”
I said, “about 9000 rupees, why?”
He couldn’t believe it and said, “well, that passenger I dropped off at the airport tipped me with 2000 rupees, and these 200 dollars. Are you sure these are worth 9000 rupees?”
I asked him, “are they American dollars?”
He said, “yes.”
“Then they are really worth 9000 rupees. Congratulations!” I replied.
To give my Western readers a perspective here, the usual cab fare for a mile-long ride in Mumbai is about INR 40-50, and an upper middle-class man usually earns no more than INR 1500-2000 in a day if he has a good degree and works in a managerial position for a large company. Such a man can afford a heavy mortgage on a big house and is considered successful by Indian standards.
The cabbie, Mohammad Irfan Khan, was delighted at my confirmation, and started talking about how he is always able to build a rapport with all his passengers. Somewhere during the conversation, I happened to ask him what his life was as a cab driver. And what he said next almost made me want to become a cab driver.
He said, “on a normal day, I save up to 1000 to 1500 rupees, and my life is just great.
“I work for 14-16 hours a day, and I love every part of it. This car is so good, I never get backaches and since I’m always driving an air conditioned cab with passengers who are mostly educated and respectful such as yourself, I always have a great experience.”
I was really surprised. He continued, “When I was a rickshaw driver, I would save no more than 500 rupees and it would be very tiring with all the noise and smoke. But ever since I became a cab driver for Meru, my life has turned around. God bless the owners of Meru, they’re doing such a great job for all drivers like me.”
A cab driver wishing good things about a multinational corporation like Meru Cabs, this was turning into one of the most interesting conversations I’ve had with a stranger in a very long time.
I asked him, “so how does this work? Is this your cab that you register with Meru?”
He explained, “no. Meru owns this cab. All they need us to have is a taxi driver’s badge. If we have it, they provide us with a five-day training at the end of which we have to appear for a driving test. If we do well, we get a brand-new cab, and if we don’t do so well, they give us a slightly older one for a month until we can catch up.”
I was amazed, “that’s great. So does Meru take a cut from your earnings with this cab? How do they make money?”
He said, “well, we have to deposit 850 rupees daily into Meru’s account at any of the Axis Bank ATMs across the city. We can keep all the rest of the earnings for ourselves. We also have a choice of whether or not to accept the fares that Meru forwards on to us. For example, when I met you, I logged off from the system, which indicates that I’m no longer accepting their calls for the time being. Once I drop you off, if I wish to continue, I can log in again.
“We [drivers] usually prefer to stay logged in as we get maximum business from Meru. Our personal calls are very few.
“Another great part about this is that I get to keep this cab with me at all times. So when I go home, I can take my wife and son on a drive. They always get so happy whenever I take them out in this cab — it’s like our own personal car.”
I was dazzled by his story. I said, “it’s just great how your life can turn around, isn’t it?”
He said, “yes, absolutely. When I drove a rickshaw, I never felt like going to work. Now, I sleep for barely four to five hours and I can’t keep myself from going to work, I love it so much!
“I’ll tell you something else. My wife was pregnant a few months ago, and the doctor told us he would have to perform a caesarian section. He said it would cost 25,000 rupees. But I told my wife to relax and not to worry. I worked for nearly 24 hours for the next six days. And you know what, I earned 25,000 rupees during that time and paid for the surgery. After the surgery when my wife and son came home, I took a week off to spend time with them. So you see, if someone offered me an office job today that pays 30,000 rupees and asked me to quit driving this cab, I wouldn’t take it.”
He was beaming with pride. He said, “now I’m going to ensure that I give my family the best life possible here. I’ll get my son admitted to the best schools around here, which I couldn’t have afforded earlier.”
I congratulated him again and told him that I would write a piece on him. He offered to stay in touch with me and told me to call him anytime I ever needed a cab.
I got off thinking, here’s a company that wanted to make profits and ended up giving a whole new way of life to thousands of people. Meru currently owns a fleet of 3500 cabs all over India, and with the kind of pressure they are under to meet growing demand for good-quality cabs, I can bet there are a lot many Mohammad Khans they’ve touched along the way.
What all charitable institutions would give an arm to achieve in their lifetime, Meru has achieved within a few months without even aiming for it. That’s the only way a society can ever be lifted from poverty — capitalism style.
A recent report in Hindustan Times said,
The man blamed so far for the false alarm about the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035 surfaced on Tuesday to say he never made such an exact assertion and, worse, he had been misquoted.
“On the basis of our research in 1999 I must have said that glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalayas will lose mass during the next 40/50 years at their present rate of decline,” Hasnain told Hindustan Times.
And the hits just keep coming. I’ve seen Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and I remember him mentioning that the Himalayan glaciers are going to melt down soon and cause a major shortage of water supply for all the surrounding areas. Isn’t it interesting that Al Gore went around the whole world giving his presentation and didn’t even bother to confirm what the theory of a melt down in the Himalayas was based on?
In fact, this isn’t the first time when some credible supporter of global warming has been caught with his pants down. If you see The Great Global Warming Swindle, you’ll see a lot of mess that’s happened with the IPCC’s report, which is the backbone of the green revolution. There were scientists whose names appeared on the report despite the fact that none of their statements did.
One scientist actually had to threaten the IPCC guys with legal action in order to have his name removed from the report, because they had mentioned his name among the contributors without actually including his views, thus falsely implying that he was in support of the report’s conclusions.
Another such example is Lawrence Solomon’s recent article in the National Post on “how Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles.”
For the benefit of those who think that there is some truth to anthropogenic global warming, I’ll relay one fact: the biggest “evidence” of a relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature is the graph that spans 650,000 years highlighting the trend of carbon dioxide against global temperature. Both the factors do seem to have a correlation. However, the geniuses who use it to prove that carbon dioxide increases temperature seem to have forgotten how to read graphs. The correlation between these two factors is actually in reverse. Whenever the temperature increases, it causes an increase in carbon dioxide. In some cases, the increase in carbon dioxide following an increase in temperature is as pronounced as 800 years.
Therefore, even if you supported global warming out of some twisted logic like “even if things aren’t that bad, having a relatively CO2-free atmosphere is in our best interests,” you need to quit it.
Reducing CO2 will not cool the earth down. It might, however, bring in some complications that we aren’t yet aware of — such as a possible reduction in the growth rate of plants around the world (source).
And if you’re supporting the green revolution thinking that “we do need an alternative for fossil fuels anyway, and as long as we get that, it doesn’t matter what their intentions are”, try this for an argument: do the ends justify the means?
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P.S.: Check this video out (ignore the first few seconds about Britain and the EU); perhaps that will give you some more food for thought about the intentions of all major bodies supporting global warming:
