WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE

Do you remember the early 70s? I do. We were being told that the world was running out of oil. All of us were going to have to get used to a new way of living. No more fossil fuel. Cars and trucks would have to be electric. Gasoline prices began to skyrocket. Gasoline shortages were everywhere. I remember having to buy gasoline based on odd or even numbered license plates. Even at that there were long lines at all filling stations. It was another one of those “we’re all going to die” situations.

I guess the campaign was successful. The price of oil soared. The truly amazing thing is that once the price got high enough, suddenly more oil was discovered. In fact, so much oil was found we became an oil exporter rather than just an oil importer. We finally got rid of liberal politics and began to pump oil out of shale. It was soon discovered that there was more oil under North Dakota than all of the Middle East.

When this glut of oil hit the market, oil prices began to moderate. In fact, former oil exporters like OPEC and Russia started to have economic problems because their economies were based on higher priced oil and natural gas. So, it turns out that we really never had an actual shortage of oil. It was just a scare tactic to drive up the price. It seems to have worked.

There was another “we’re all going to die” moment back in that era. Some very intelligent??? scientists and professors started the rumor that the world was soon to be so overpopulated that it could not sustain itself. I remember some very established people cancelling their life insurance because they reasoned it would have no value. The standard thought was that the world could only last another ten years. That was sixty years ago. Today the world is probably healthier than ever in its history. Hmmm. Kinda makes you wonder, huh?

This brings me to the latest “we’re all going to die” campaign. That being, of course, global warming and climate change. Liberals are spreading the alarms. Gov. Moonbeam Brown of California says that we are running out of time. The world is at death’s door. The scientists and professors, who stand to gain millions in grants by keeping this farce going, are lining up to convince us all. The leftist media, which is actually nothing more than an arm of the Democrat Party, is all on board. The new young Socialists who are invading our country will be out in full force attempting to jam this nonsense down our collective throats. It has already begun.

I suspect that in just a few years when this latest campaign has run its course, there will be yet another issue that will so inflame the liberals that they will have to scare everybody.

Here is some news for the liberals. Yes, we’re all going to die, eventually. Probably not from a shortage of oil and probably not from over population of the earth. I don’t even think global warming is going to cause our deaths. Most of us from old age. Some will die in accidents. Some will just get sick. It is a part of living. But the reality is that we’re all going to die. My humble advice is to live while we are alive. Enjoy our time on this earth. Love our families and our friends. Take care of the earth. Don’t waste. Don’t destroy. Conserve and protect. And most importantly, stick around for another fifty years or so so you can laugh in the faces of the doomsayers. That will be fun.

Ron Scarbro