Bill, don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I have to fight with myself over the same kind of anger.. but since I don't know the future, I don't know who is going to be right in the end. Getting pushed around on global warming stuff is just an extension of getting pushed round on the gun stuff.
We are screwing up the environment.. one of our biggest problems as preppers is finding water to drink without a small water treatment plant in our backpack. Peking looks like the Southern California I grew up in. Truth is, about 90% of all the really bad shtf involve the oil running out . about 90% of the current trouble in the world is over a shortage of something, happens to be oil now, but we know it will be water soon enough.. we know what malnutrition and starvation is.. about a Billion folks go to bed hungry every night.. Don't let your anger blind you, just about everything environmental getting pushed down our throats, near as anybody can tell about these things, is something we kind of need to do to stave off TEOTWAWKI anyway, and by our own scenarios, not their by their theories.
The Historical record shows us the climate changes .. the conditions during the 1600's-1700's- early 1800's The Little Ice Age .. the crop failures and famines and "let them eat cake" which Marie said because there was crop failure due to cold weather and the people didn't have enough hard wheat for their bread, I mean, personally, I always assumed that Marie thought that the soft wheat crop did okay and there would be plenty of soft wheat for cake, but researching it , nope turns out the soft wheat crop got nailed too.. and she was just being a tyrant.. who knew?
We need to screw up nature less so there is more room to bug out and live off the land... and what about me.. I eat the bushes and weeds, I don't need people getting them all dirty. And we need less people, or be willing to cope with those primordial and galactic forces that match up demand with supply and even things out when there is a glut or shortage of anything, that we call SHTF.
I kinda look at it like I look at the conspiracy to keep the price of precious metals down.. they doing it the wrong way and for all the wrong reasons, but on balance I can profit and come out ahead and live better off the grid and off the land and with enough space to lay down and stretch out instead of living cheek to jowl with liberal tree huggers Liberal tree huggers hug trees all wrong, probably molest them while they do it.. just ask any conservative tree hugger.
The lines shift, every year the give out Nobel prizes in all sorts of sciences and about half the time the one they award this year is for proving the guy who won one the year before was wrong. I just had the whole greenie thing walk away from me and start hugging nuclear reactors as carbon free, they used to be my friends, but they got sold a bill of goods and we got sold Fukushima. Do I want to shake somebody by the collar, dam right I do. But right now I want cleaner water more and a little less hunger and a little more stability in this world.. When I die I want folks to think I was a total fool for prepping and I want them to think my Kids and my Kid's Kids are fools too.
Going into a mini ice age or even a full one is NOT a better deal than global warming. And I got skin in this game, i'm going to lose more trees this year.. pretty sure I already lost a pecan, got froze with all the leaves still green, next morning it was a frozen brown tree... I bet the climate might trend warmer.. turns out, tonight and after last winter that I should have planted Sugar Maples instead of Olives. Or may not, when you are talking sapling to decent crop it is hard to see that far ahead sometimes.