The Price of Liberty

By Nathan Barton

“Interesting tidbit,” said Debby in forwarding this story from 9News in Denver that the Rocky Mountains wildfire history shows that temperatures were much warmer, and that wildfires were much more major and frequent a thousand years ago, so that modern “global warming” would also be expected to cause (or allow) more forest fires. This claim, of course, is based on something almost NEVER taught in high school or college history classes: that brief industrial and high-tech era in which the AmerInd tribes achieved incredible heights of sophistication and production, dominated the planet, and reached out to the planets. This was, of course, before their hubris and the massive flooding and horrific weather triggered by the AmerInd-caused global warming completely wiped out their massive industrial civilization so completely that two centuries later the remnants of their population were living in cliffs and tipis and worse. And then quickly slid into the nature-loving and preserving, environmentally-sensitive “noble savages” that modern environists love so much. [Actually, maybe they DID make it to the planets: any idea about why they call Mars the “Red Planet” or how it got that way?] Continue reading →