Climate: America, Europe have limited impact

The climate change issue has been sold to the world for years. Our liberal-elite leaders in America and Europe have made it the primary world issue and have spent enormous amounts of money to change the world’s way of life.

Over our planet’s life, the climate has changed back and forth from severe cold to warm, and warm seems most beneficial to humans.

Perhaps we don’t have a choice. Part of the climate change issue is the thought that plastic materials are bad because they are not biodegradable, especially plastic bags now banned in many places.

But a 2017 study in Nature Communications estimated 86% of plastic carried into oceans by rivers comes from Asia, Africa and South America. Environmentally sound Europe and America have little influence over countries outside of the West.

Also, polyethylene bags are not biodegradable but they sequester carbon from their basic natural gas origin; perhaps sequestered material is better than biodegradable material.

It appears the climate-change liberals want a limited discussion to the deterrent of the environment. The American people deserve facts, not scare campaigns.

This story was originally published March 19, 2020 at 3:57 PM with the headline "Climate: America, Europe have limited impact."