Young voters will learn truth someday
There's an old story of a young person, a teen I think, who is greatly disturbed with the ignorance of his parents. As time goes on and this person advances into his 20s/30s, he is truly amazed at the rapidity with which the parents have since learned so much. I think this story will apply to many "young Illinois voters" as well.
Says one of them: "Obama recognizes that if we don't take steps to fight against global warming, it will have a damaging effect on the world and nation's economy." I would suggest that, instead of hoping for change from President-elect Obama, these young Illinois voters (YIV) would study up on some rather recent history.
Professor Paul Ehrlich over the past few decades has come up with several books that were just chock full of dire predictions for the human race. Among those predictions were warnings that the population of the earth would outstrip its ability to produce sufficient food, and widespread starvation would occur, killing hundreds of millions of people - during the 1970s. "Smog disasters" might kill hundreds of thousands in New York and L.A. in 1973. Said the highly touted professor in 1969: "I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
Some of Ehrlich's predictions may well have been encouraged by articles such as the one Newsweek published back in April of 1975. This one's called, "The Cooling World." Yes, you read that right: cooling, not warming.
Said the National Academy of Sciences back then: "A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale, because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."
Well, we're still here, average global temps have actually been declining since about 1998, we're producing more food than we can consume, we haven't run out of natural resources, and the doom-and-gloomers, in an attempt to get back into the limelight, have done an about face and are now crying global warming! global warming! along with reruns of all the same old predictions of woe for us all.
Young Illinois voters will someday become old Illinois voters, and as they morph, they too will learn that some people will say anything to get attention, and there will always be some who will believe their lies.
John Babush
Big Rock