4.21 The Carbon Dioxide Song
In 2018 a 15 year old girl by the name of Greta Thunberg, skipped school and for the next three weeks sat in front of the Swedish parliament with a hand painted banner every day for three weeks to protest the what she believed was a lack of action to stop what she believed was an impending global warming catastrophe. Unfortunately for the farmers of the Netherlands, their government has decided to take action. The Netherlands, the second largest exporter of agriculture in the world after the United States, plans to force the sale and closure of 3,000 farms which they believe emits to much carbon dioxide and nitrogen. The Dutch government has proposed killing half the cattle in Holland to reduce methane production and that has led to widespread protests by farmers. The crazy Dutch government don't seem to be afraid of the consequences of less milk and less meat to feed people. They don't seem to be afraid of putting their farmers out of business or what killing half the livestock will do to the Dutch economy.
The crazy self destructive behavior of the Dutch government is eerily similar to a story of the Xhosa tribe from the book Roosters of the Apocalypse. I quote from the book below.
Beginning in the spring of 1856, the Xhosa tribe in today's South Africa, destroyed its own economy. The Xhosa killed an estimated half-million of their own cattle (which they ordinarily treated with great care and respect), ceased planting crops, and destroyed their grain stores By the end of 1857 between thirty and fifty thousand of them had starved to death -- a third to a half of the population. The British herded survivors of the once powerful tribe into labor camps, and white settlers took much of their land.
The Xhosa had acted on the prophecy of a 15 year old girl who promised that if they destroyed all they had and purified themselves of "witchcraft" (including evil inclinations and selfishness), the world before the white invaders came would be restored: The British oppressors would flee, and the Xhosa ancestors would return, bringing with them an even greater abundance of cattle and grain.
Before we look down with contempt and pity and the crazy Xhosa and the crazy Dutch we need to look in the mirror. Dr. Rael Isaac the author of Roosters of the Apocalypse wrote:
Just as the basis for the Xhosa economy was cattle, the lifeblood of our economy is energy and we are strangling our on energy supply on the basis of an apocalyptic prophecy that has no more validity than the one that sent the Xhosa spinning into cultural self-immolation.
Not only is energy crucial to our economy, carbon dioxide is crucial for life. Minnesotans for Global Warming wrote a song about that which they sing in the video below. Some explanations might be helpful to our younger viewers before listening to the song in the video. The singers use the word symbiotic in the video to describe how we benefit plants by emitting carbon dioxide when we breath and how plants benefit us by emitting oxygen. The song mentions the term carbon neutral. Carbon neutral means not producing carbon dioxide or if something produces carbon dioxide it consumes just as much carbon dioxide. Climate alarmists want all companies and farms to be carbon neutral. If a company produces carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels to heat their offices for example, they want the company to remove that carbon dioxide from the air somehow or they don't want it to produce carbon dioxide at all. Here is the song.
I think the song writers from Minnesota made one mistake in the song. They said that carbon dioxide makes the sky blue. It may contribute to making the sky blue but most of the atmosphere is made of nitrogen (77%) and oxygen (21%) so think those moleculres are what primarily makes the sky blue. When sunlight hits molecules in the atmosphere they bend the blue light in every direction including down to the surface of the earth, that's why the sky is blue.
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