My climate change prediction

The Green movement had its roots in a spinoff from the German Socialist Party of a few decades ago, because the party was not being aggressive enough. Socialism being what it is, that's why every solution offered by green folks involves greater restrictions on personal liberty and increased government regulation – because socialists believe common people left to themselves are too irresponsible to be free, and the state knows better. That's just how these people think.

My prediction is that the Earth will keep breathing. Natural cycles will continue much the same as they have done all my lifetime, and across the lifetime of the planet. Some decades it will get warmer, some decades (like this one) it will get colder. Lakes and rivers will hit all-time lows, and a few years later they will hit all-time highs.

Some people worship Gaia, insisting the planet is a living creature. Living creatures breathe; we go through cycles. We inhale; we exhale. The bacteria in my stomach rarely make a difference, but when they do, the impact rarely lasts very long. A bacterium may believe its actions can make a life-changing difference, but it would delude itself; its footprint on my body is just not that dramatic.

So it's ironic that the people most inclined to believe in Gaia act as if the Earth is a machine that behaves linearly – in the 1970s the cry was that a new Ice Age is near, and in the 1990s it was always going to keep getting warmer. (P.S. Government intervention was their solution both times.)

Climate change as a political issue is not about saving the planet; it is about gathering control of our lives into the hands of an elite few.