It was Adlai Stevenson, among others, who said, “In a democracy, people get the kind of government they deserve.” There are two groups of people who have been remarkable accurate in their interpretation of modern issues, and it’s just our luck that they turn out to be Keynesian (and neo-Keynesian) economists and climate scientists. Consider John Boehner’s recent quote: “Listen, I’m not qualified to debate the science over climate change. But I am astute enough to understand that every proposal that has come out of this administration to deal with climate change involves hurting our economy and killing American jobs. That can’t be the prescription for dealing with changes in our climate.”Now the obvious fact is that we’ve wasted too much time to accomplish all we’d like in terms of climate change, and given the nature of our government we might as well throw up our hands, or possibly just throw up. According to the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change fifth assessment report (Approved Summary for Policymakers 11/1/2014) “Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems. Limiting climate change would require substantial and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions which, together with adaptation, can limit climate change risks.”It isn’t necessary to be a scientist to see the effects of climate change and, anyway, most scientists aren’t climate scientists, but we’ve seen the erratic weather conditions that the climate scientists predicted. Also, it shouldn’t be necessary to figure out that if we keep pouring tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere something is going to change. Yes, climate change can be a natural phenomenon – the ice ages occurred long before the internal combustion engine – but that doesn’t mean we have no responsibility or should just ignore what’s happening. The fact is combating climate change will create more jobs, not fewer.Read More.Source: Populist/Sam Uretsky