Do As I Say!

After preparing for hurricane Hermine’s arrival, I am sitting here in the EasternShoreFishAndGame.com nerve center.  The local newspaper arrived an hour ago, bringing with it so-so information about the Eastern Shore.  One item of note was that President Barack Hussein Obama had just met with Chinese president Xi Jinping, in China.

This meeting was a follow-up to last year’s Paris climate change agreement.  They hailed this a “new era of climate cooperation as the best chance for saving the planet.”

Now that’s powerful stuff.

According to these two comedians, the planet Earth is on the brink of disaster, the result of generations of man-made pollution and over-use of the planet’s finite resources.

This heralded meeting-of-the-minds cemented blather contrived in the previous Paris shindig.  I don’t know what was discussed in Paris because I don’t really care.

No matter what was discussed, the bottom line is that the consequence will wind-up costing American’s more money.  Whether it is for clean water, anti-coal mining, fracking retribution, or carbon tax credits, fees will result in me paying more for the brain trust’s ideas.

Every so often we hear about these critical meetings aimed at correcting some arbitrary goal for fuel mileage, atmospheric carbon dioxide content, or however many parts-per-million particles of the chemical du jour are allowed to invade our lives.

This bunch of egoists gathers to attempt to turn back the hands of time for future generations.  They worry that not enough is ever being done to stem the tide of self-destruction, using phrases like, “we need to do something,” and “the end is near.”

I used the word “egoists” because these people actually believe they have the ability to alter the climate of the planet.  We were supposed to witness dramatic changes in the ozone layer if we abandoned our aerosol deodorants years ago. 

We didn’t.  But that’s because we did not do enough.  Heavy vehicles are gobbling up too much fuel so, they are now being made from papier mâché to satisfy arbitrary Environmental Protection Agency dictates.

All these steps are nonsensical because the Paris accord attendees are no where to be seen during times of dramatic climate issues.

The Eastern Shore received 18 of 21 days of rain this past Spring 2016, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is recovering from record flooding occurring in August 2016, and now I sit in water-surrounded soggy land.

Switching weather television stations between rain, wind, and tornado destruction in Florida, to potential tidal flooding and wind damage locally, I have become more philosophical.  Weather experts contend nothing can be done to stop these massive destructive forces.

Watching countless leaves blowing past my windows, torrential rains pounding the roof, and silver maple tree branches dropping form decades-old trees, I am pondering how Presidents Obama and Xi are going to stop these destructive hurricanes.

Perhaps some sort of tax – perhaps on free-thinking of the tax payers - will stem the destruction.

Egoists.