Two generations of students have been and are currently being brainwashed into believing rising atmospheric CO2 levels are setting the planet up for an impending climate apocalypse and are an existential threat to human existence.

Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. CO2 is a minor, 0.04% gas in the atmosphere and is essential for plant life. When examining the earth’s geologic record, one will note that plant and animal life flourished while the atmospheric CO2 concentrations were magnitudes higher than the 400-plus ppm today.

The data used to depict the recent increases in CO2 was conveniently selected to cause fear so that people will docilely accept drastic and economically destructive policies. The “Great Reset” is the fevered dream of the climate alarmist movement. Pushed by organizations like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, as well as global heads of state, it is nothing more than the globalist agenda to destroy capitalism and freedom and replace it with a global, centralized, socialistic-style government.

Evidence of this agenda abounds: replacing abundant, cheap, and reliable energy sources with intermittent and unreliable solar energy farms, wind farms, EVs, net zero goals, government mandates and restriction, environmental social governance, etc. etc.

All these efforts to curb CO2 are extremely costly and environmentally destructive, with minimal to no net lifecycle reductions in CO2.

For the last 50 years, alarmists have all wrongly predicted environmental catastrophes.

The late journalist and critic H.L. Mencken wisely wrote; “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

We can right this ship come November.

STEVE DEAN,

Alpena