Imagine if you will that you're a history student in year 2250, and you're supposed to do a term paper on the decline and fall of the United States of America. Can you put your finger on exactly what went wrong? You may have several key concepts to choose from.
"At the dawn of the 21st century," you write, "the geographical USA included some of the largest deposits of fossil fuels to be found anywhere in the world. Yet use of these resources remained either untapped or severely limited because many in the population at the time believed that consuming these fuels would somehow bring about the death of the planet."
A more interesting term paper might be exploring the mania of "Global Warming." For example:
"Global Warming was a belief system that mimicked cultist religious faith and was even widely taught to school children. Initially claimed to be grounded in scientific fact, Global Warming was revealed to be nothing more than a hoax perpetrated by several leading 'scientists' at the time -- and many of these accredited not in geographic sciences, but in social sciences -- and unquestioning cadres of grad students and general 'ride-along' political rabble.
"This odd but noisy and even violent mixture of 'fellow travelers' used the Global Warming argument as political leverage to establish draconian regulations designed to limit and/or terminate the use of fossil fuels everywhere, but particularly in the USA and other highly industrialized nations. The apparent long-range aim of these groups was to eventually establish a global political dictatorship dedicated to protecting polar bears and yet-unidentified plant life that may or may not be lurking under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest -- which were hailed as potential sources of miracle medicines.
"This tiny but increasingly dangerous minority of people protected themselves by bolstering their Global Warming theories with unintelligible gibberish disguised as the 'measurable negative impacts' of the presence of the human race on the earth. And their anti-science, anti-technology preachments gained such virulence that dismantling or otherwise neutralizing this knot of half-fact, fiction, and public hysteria was a challenge all by itself.
"For example, although the USA of the 21st century relied heavily upon oil, coal, and natural gas to fuel every aspect of human life, the political leadership at the time chose to pinch off and/or shut down development and use of those domestic resources. Instead, the nation decided to purchase these resources from non-USA producers -- apparently turning a blind eye to the fact that foreign producers also were violating the articles of faith behind Global Warming.
"At any rate, the USA's decision to buy these resources from other, largely undeveloped nations, regularly triggered fire storms of hostility and war-like threats and activities from the seller nations, who by and large regarded the USA as a threat to their own peculiar cultures and superstitions. In short, although the economic life of these nations depended upon the USA's purchase of oil and other raw materials, these seller nations profoundly resented the USA's influence upon their own societies and cultures. They regarded the USA in some cases as 'The Great Satan' and took any number of measures to destroy the USA and its allies wherever they existed around the world.
"And yet, the USA still refused to develop its own resources.
"This positively bizarre phenomenon can only be interpreted now -- with the luxury of hindsight -- as an irresponsible and even self-destructive flight of fancy on the part of the USA's leadership at the time."
Footnotes to come.
I'd give you an "A."
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