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I just don’t see this as a bad thing. It would be one thing if this were a first charge or the evidence were not so disturbing. In this case, however, given the behavior regarding this case, as well as the judge noting previous behavior in prison, this young man has shown no remorse and no likelihood of changing. That being said, what is the benefit of being lenient?
I am going to poke the bear a little bit today with a hot-button topic: climate change.
The first American president to mention climate change was LBJ in 1965. The first political warning about climate change came from Congressman George Perkins in 1864. In 1989, Noel Brown, who was then the director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), made the declaration that "entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."
To be fair, he was not saying that would be the result by the year 2000, only that change needed to be made before then or risk the consequences. Basically, he was saying that the year 2000 was the point of no return.
In 2006, Al Gore offered a “10-year window” to take action, or we would pass the point of no return. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that we had "12 years left to save the planet.”
I don’t think anyone would argue that pollution is bad, and the cleaner we can make energy, including fossil fuels, the better off we will be. But it is this constant doomsday scenario that turns people away. I have always advocated that fossil fuels and renewable energy should be working together rather than pitted against each other, as I believe we would have some incredible results from that partnership.
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