The naïve advice
of ardent activists can kill. Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada
predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer. (So did
Britain’s BBC network.) This exciting adventure opportunity attracted a variety
of yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks owners to try sailing the fabled
Northwest Passage.
As a former
sailboat owner I can understand their excitement, but my heart aches for the
agonies they now face. The Arctic sea ice suddenly expanded 60 percent this
fall, after the coldest summer in the modern Alaska temperature record. The
passage is now impassable. More than a dozen of the boats are trapped,
apparently even including a group of tiny American jet-ski “personal
watercraft” that were attempting to cross from the east coast of Russia to the
North Atlantic. Arctic observers are now warning that even Canadian icebreakers
might not be able to rescue them......Read more:
My Take - This is a example of what happens when
people actually believe the speculations and postulations of the green movement
and act accordingly. Disaster! And this certainly is
a disaster for those people stranded in the ice. Now let’s think about this. If this is what happens on such a small
scale, what would happen on a large scale if the world adopted their policies
based on these same speculations and postulations? One thing we need to get right in our
heads. They pay no penalty for being
wrong. It’s always others that end up
paying the penalties.
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