There Is No 'We' When It Comes To Saving The Planet

Saving the planet is hard work, requiring superhuman knowledge, dedication and sacrifice. Only the best minds can understand the nuances of climate science. Only men of brightly shining valor possess the character needed for the struggle. (Ach, du lieber, mein kampf!)

And it's important work. Saving the planet--indeed, what could be more important?

So we must attract the most qualified to undertake this Herculean task, such men as those who attended the climate change summit in Copenhagen--oh, pardon me, and women too (must not forget Nancy Pelosi and friends). Imagine the sacrifice: flying into Copenhagen on your private jet and having to wait while the little people attempt to find enough limousines to ferry you from your welcoming caviar and wine tasting party to your hundred-dollar-a-pound Kobe beef dinner. Just try to find good help nowadays.

Imagine Al Gore's struggle to overcome the adversity of his own meager background: a C-average journalism major who got a D in the only science class he ever took, rising to the heights with an Oscar, a Nobel prize and a bucket of cash. Enough cash to buy a new (another) house overlooking the sea for 8.8 million dollars, with five bedrooms, six fireplaces and nine bathrooms. His work is important. He needs a private jet to fly from mansion to mansion. There must be no delays in saving the planet.

And, of course, there's the head of the IPCC, a railroad engineer whose business has profited from the undocumented, and false, claim that the Himalayan glaciers are disappearing. Pretty smart, eh?

We must keep the grant money flowing to scientists who hide, manipulate and falsify data because saving the planet is such important work that the hoi polloi must be fed simple, dramatic images to be persuaded to drastically modify their piggish lifestyles. A group of German scientists recommends that we ration each person to 1/4 of his or her current carbon emissions. Once again, the precision of the science is stunning. I'm apparently not smart enough to understand why not 1/3, 1/5 or 1/pick a number, any number instead of 1/4. And I'm definitely not smart enough to understand how we reduce carbon emissions by employing the stupendous number of people, traveling and otherwise producing carbon emissions themselves, needed to monitor this rationing process, but, hey, I'm sure they have figured this into the equation.

These bright and shining men surely have already begun to limit their own lifestyles to set an example for the rest of us less noble oafs.

Fat chance!

We need to reduce our lifestyles, to learn to live like medieval serfs.

We?