Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
So, in 2022, the U.S. Congress passed the Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act of 2022 requiring the Department of Homeland Security to assess global catastrophic and existential risks.
That report came out two weeks ago (to little fanfare, by the way) and do you know what is NOT a freakin’ existential threat to the human race?
Climate change, that’s what.
According to a congressionally mandated study by Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security, we face an existential threat from nuclear war, a pandemic, a super volcano eruption or an asteroid colliding with Earth.
Contrary to modern progressive theology, we do not face an existential risk from climate change. The climate will do what the climate will do. And whatever it does — don’t ask Al Gore because he’s always wrong — it’s not going to wipe out the human race.
Properly Subversive recommends this piece by The Honest Broker which lays it out well.
This report “is very clear in its conclusion that climate change does not present a catastrophic health risk — even over the course of a century.” ‘
Here’s the congressional report directly:
“Although there is no accepted determination of what would constitute a global catastrophic health risk from climate change, authors of at least one report defined it as a mass-mortality event taking the equivalent of 25 percent of the population. For the United States, based on the 2020 population (330 million), percent would mean approximately 80 million people, or 2 billion for the estimated global population in 2022 of 8 billion. . . Mortality of this magnitude would effectively be ten times that of the 1918 influenza pandemic. These values suggest a very high bar for catastrophic risk. . . No published study has suggested the possibility of a singular mass-mortality event of this magnitude, nor is there evidence of an indirect mechanism, such as collapse of global food supplies or climate-mediated pathogenesis, that would result in such high rates of mortality. Even with cumulative losses over a century, mortality would not meet these thresholds.”
The bottom line: Paying attention to the issues around climate change may be worthy, it pales in comparison to, say, nuclear warfare.
So, please, can we stop freaking out to the tune of the uninformed hysteria of the Greta Thunberg’s of the world (above) and for goodness’ sake stop pretending banning gas stoves will do anything?
Instead, give thanks to the last election bringing forth a president-elect focused more on ending the potential nuclear conflicts in the Middle East and the Ukraine.
That’s the clear and present danger. Not the climate.
Read the full Properly Subversive column here.
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