LETTER: Why is global warming so bad?

To the editor:

Climate change is the catastrophe being preached to end all life on Earth if we don’t do something about it — the worst disaster since the dinosaurs went extinct.

While environmentalists have many good points and seem overly frustrated that everybody won’t buy into their amazing scientific discoveries, the real point seems to be passed over. Why is global warming so bad?

While the polar bear might go extinct — and that’s really too bad — I would really like to shoot one and put it in the living room. That’s just evolution. I mean, already 99 percent of species are already extinct, so what’s one more?

There is also the idea sea level will rise and tons of people will die. This doesn’t really seem to be so bad, as I am taught the world is severely overpopulated.

There are all sorts of benefits to this. The first is my land value will definitely go up, as there will be less land. Also, it seems most socialists and leeches on society seem to live close to sea level, so it can solve some of our country’s most expensive problems.

We also have the opportunity to really see evolution in action and document it well. I mean, we definitely have an impact on the environment — all species do — and because we are the most advanced, we will have the biggest impact. If other species can’t keep up, that really is too bad, and maybe we can put a few in the zoo.

Yet, there are still those who preach evolution and overpopulation so vehemently, they seem opposed to let it work its magic and seem bent on ruining the wealth of the industrialized countries, living in some hippie Utopia.

I love the Earth just as much as the next man; it gives me oil, gold and entertainment in the form of hunting, off-roading and snowmobiling.  

While global warming is preached, it’s really just a fit of jealousy that others have more money and enjoy their big gas-guzzling SUV’s. The scam is trying to control our lives under the excuse of global warming.

Just one more means of redistributing the world’s wealth. On behalf of the silent majority, please keep your thieving socialist hands out of our pockets and away from our trucks.

Joseph Nielsen