One sentence from Christy's FLat-Earth theory
makes it crystal clear what got into him:
"My experience as a missionary teacher in Africa
opened my eyes to this simple fact:
Without access to energy, life
is brutal and short."
He is a creationist from Alabama who refuses to
believe the Earth is any older that the Bible says
it is (therefore charts based on 600,000 years
must be wrong) and he works for
the US coal and oil lobby.
My aunt and uncle (when I lived with them
as a lad on a Gippsland farm in the
1940s) had no piped electricity, water,
or gas and no tractor or farm items
that required anything other than
four-legged horse power.
Wood provided cooking and
household winter heating
and warm bathwater.
The only fossil fuel they consumed
was korosene for a ceiling lamp
in the kitchen (elsewhere the
room was lit by a beeswax
candle) and some
petrol for the car
to get to church
(Sundays) and
for shopping
(on Fridays).
Each was a 25km round trip.
Their parents lived well too -
but minus the kero and
the petrol.
So Christy's hilarious theory that
"Without access to energy, life
is brutal and short" is a
self-deluded load of
old horse feathers!
I've never met a happier and more
well-adusted couple in my
life than my Uncle Jim
and Aunt Matilda.
From the left: My Aunt Matilda,
my mother, Uncle Jim and me
taken about 1950 and they
were *not* Mormons - my
father took the picture:
The more we ditch our gas-guzzling and
coal-burning profligate Western ways,
(and return to sustainable ways)
the happier and more adjusted we
will be to the unpleasant reality
that humans caused and humans
can slow the on-rushing tragedy
of human-caused Global
Warming and Climate
Change.
UNLESS unless we own coal,
oil or BHP shares (or are a
Liberal MP) in which case
Christy's views make
sense and Al Gore
is a deluded fool.
But one thing I've noticed above all the
other outstanding aspects of Gore's
character is he is a very happy man
who works in the interests of the
common welfare - not for
selfish profiterring.
This reinforces the two most important
lessons a human being ever learn:
(1) Where does happiness come from?
My two children (when younger)
are excellent examples that
happiness comes from being
devoted to any worthwhile
purpose in life - eg taking
good care of a puppy
or taking good care
of a sick planet
like Al Gore
does.
(2) Where does misery come from?
