[Skybird]

In Germany, ecology has become a surrogate religion that replaces the faith in the old deity that is not believed in anymore. But people need to believe in something, apparently, no matter in what, and ecology, genderism and social equality are three such faiths that drive people now. Before anything else it drives them nuts. From CO2 footprint statistics to veganism, from house insulation (you cannot imagine what madness that has broken lose over here) to hysterically proclaiming higher and higher criterion markers by which the temperature rise should be artifically limited this century: people are almost levitating with a halo over their heads when talking about these things and tell the world "that we must do better". Fiscal and global, political and economic realities get ignored more or less. Reason in assessing these, is Satan's work. The attitude, in which ecology gets debated and reflected, is almost Calvinistic. Is self-castigation.

I take it as granted that the climate by general trend is becoming warmer. The signs are such in quantity and quality that it is impossible to claim otherwise without making a fool of oneself. Namely biological facts are my main argument, not even geological or atmosphere-related ones.

However, survival of the fittest as thrown into the discussion by Darwin doe snot necessarily mean survival of the longest teeth and the strongest claw. It means survival of those who adapt. And adapting to a changing climate, and hoping to artificially change it, are two totally different things.

I am a strong defender of the scientific methodology, as is known by now. I believe it is the best intellectual tool mankind has, it is second to none. That has led me to once having followed climate activists' arguments to good degree. However, in best scientific tradition I also took note of findings and implications that became known later, that contradict the earlier claims and theories, pout them in question to more or less degrees. The IPCC and other voices, in best religious tradition, just ignore these and stick to their dogmas and demonize everybody violating it, trying to silence opposing voices. And some voices are hilarious indeed, no doubt. But there are also some, and increaisng in numbers they are, that have mentioned reasonable doubts and solid findings indicating that the activists' claims probably cannot be maintained the way they are being announced today.

Lets not forget one thing: in global politics - you can see this in every climate sum mit - climate policies are a weapon to try to change financial flowing patterns and to channel funds from the North to the south. It is a big, big money- winning machinery for the emerging economies, blackmailing of climate idealists takes place, appeals to their bad conscience should make them will to pay endlessly, on global scale we are talking about hundreds of billions - per year. And I do not even mention the massive lobbyism of industry groups that can make profit from selling insulations for houses, new ovens, and so on. Not to mention the economic stimulus promise that makes political institutions to jump onto the fright train as well.

Populations accept this to happen. Because and I said: it all is a new religion, and doing something good for the climate has become the individual's new fetish, the new golden calf to dance around.

It's hysteria all around.

In the end, all that freak show does not matter. The comate still will chnage the way it will. And the question of our survival, and the quality of it, still dpeends on in what way we are adapting, or not. Limiting temperature rises is something I believe is beyond our reach now. We are talking about processes of great longevity, strong self-dynamics and limited predictability, due to our still limited understanding of these processes' complexity. I do not waste any thinking over it, and I ignore all numbers on marketing stickers that try to sell their product by revealing some conscience-soothing ecology stuff. It would make me feel like a fool if I would waste my mind on that. We have a huge waste of resources, there is planned obsolence in product design, there is a mind-numbing cult about always buying the newest, the latest, the coolest even if your old stuff still works - no doubt on that. But we will not tackle it by this collective obligatory exercise in self deception that we call "ecological conscience", but only by understanding the basic principles of how markets function, what drives mko9nopolists, and how smaller markets can tackle the craving for ever-more monopoilism by every growing economic monster corporations that prevent right the capitalistic fundament and the free market.

The key to ecologically making a difference, is understanding economics. And that is where things lack tremendously in public discussion, both regarding diagnosing what is going wrong and why, and desi8gning the therapy.

Finally, my closing argument, like often before, is this: it probably will not make a difference anyway because WE ARE FAR TOO MANY. By a factor of 5-6, I would estimate.