Face the facts: Big Oil is done and the planet is hurting
letter to the editor
To the Editor:
While reading The Post from two weeks ago, I came across your guest column by Mark Shupe. Initially, he seems to make a logical and factual-based article on why climate change proponents are wrong. Instead, it represents a slipshod, short-shrifting condensement of some 2014 book called The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, a book titularly written to justify the continued burning of a limited resource.
I submit that Mr. Shupe get off his soap box and actually look at real events and real facts of this case. The prince of Saudi Arabia – a very wealthy nobleman and oil entrepreneur – is currently scouring the globe, looking for ways to line his pockets and save his way of life as he recognizes that Saudi oil will soon be gone.
As Arctic ice melts and Antarctica ice calves and disappears into the oceans, and the record setting temperatures in Ohio soar for the past three years, it makes little difference if this is a “warming trend” or a true climate disaster. It is apparent that it can have detrimental effects on our lives. Finally, if being grateful only means recognizing the contributions of oil-based fuels prior to the last five years, we all should be happy that Mr. Shupe’s tunnel vision approach is enlightening us.
Questioning science and coming up with wild harebrained rationales for not believing them is the brainchild of the far right. Recognizing that Big Oil’s days are limited and trying to save the planet, and expand alternative fuels, are the idea of the few who see the loss of the ozone layer, pollution, and rising temperatures as a simple harbinger that predicts what the prince of Saudi Arabia already knows: that Big Oil is done and that the planet is hurting.
Jack Wallingford
Strongsville
While reading The Post from two weeks ago, I came across your guest column by Mark Shupe. Initially, he seems to make a logical and factual-based article on why climate change proponents are wrong. Instead, it represents a slipshod, short-shrifting condensement of some 2014 book called The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, a book titularly written to justify the continued burning of a limited resource.
I submit that Mr. Shupe get off his soap box and actually look at real events and real facts of this case. The prince of Saudi Arabia – a very wealthy nobleman and oil entrepreneur – is currently scouring the globe, looking for ways to line his pockets and save his way of life as he recognizes that Saudi oil will soon be gone.
As Arctic ice melts and Antarctica ice calves and disappears into the oceans, and the record setting temperatures in Ohio soar for the past three years, it makes little difference if this is a “warming trend” or a true climate disaster. It is apparent that it can have detrimental effects on our lives. Finally, if being grateful only means recognizing the contributions of oil-based fuels prior to the last five years, we all should be happy that Mr. Shupe’s tunnel vision approach is enlightening us.
Questioning science and coming up with wild harebrained rationales for not believing them is the brainchild of the far right. Recognizing that Big Oil’s days are limited and trying to save the planet, and expand alternative fuels, are the idea of the few who see the loss of the ozone layer, pollution, and rising temperatures as a simple harbinger that predicts what the prince of Saudi Arabia already knows: that Big Oil is done and that the planet is hurting.
Jack Wallingford
Strongsville
