Activist Demands Gov’t Force Everyone To Pay For Expensive, Inconvenient Measure That Won’t Work Anyway

The technologies to which the activist referred have yet to yield reductions in the use of fossil fuels anywhere in the world.

Tel Aviv, August 9 – A participant in a demonstration at Rabin Square this evening held aloft a sign and chanted slogans in favor of taxpayer funding for government-mandated behavior to remedy a problem that the demonstrators claim needs immediate, priority attention, behavior that will according to experts, make some people feel good, but will result mostly in increased expense and effort with no significant change in the situation because Israel’s contribution to the problem constitutes such a small percentage of the global phenomenon, and the proposed remedy sounds good but has never worked as promised.

The activist, a political science major at the Open University, called on the government to require every citizen to pay for a wind turbine on the roof of their building of residence, and every business to pay for one atop theirs.

“The Earth is crying!” he shouted. “We have to listen! Unless we break away from fossil fuels and use the energy that’s just moving through the air all the time, we’re going to destroy the ecosystem and doom countless species to extinction! We have to act now before it’s too late. We need it to be mandatory to install alternative power sources, be they wind or solar, to cut down on greenhouse gases and air pollution, and it has to happen now!”

The technologies to which the activist referred have yet to yield reductions in the use of fossil fuels anywhere in the world, and have resulted only in higher energy prices where those technologies have enjoyed government investment, such as Germany, France, and California. Unreliable solar power also requires the use of panels whose manufacture and disposal create significant pollution and habitat destruction, according to government data.

“We must do our part!” he yelled, echoing the slogan on his placard. The part to which the activist referred plays a statistically unimportant role in global emissions and would accomplish nothing beyond make life in Israel even more expensive, while the main contributors to such pollution, China and India, have so far declined to adopt mitigation measures, a refusal that condemns to failure any initiative to address anthropogenic climate change.

Noticeably absent from the activist’s set of demands was the use of nuclear power, the efficiency, reliability, safety, cleanliness, and economy of which provide workable solutions to all the problems his activism claims to address, but nuclear power fails to resonate with romantic notions of living in harmony with nature and disregarding the need for a prosperous economy.

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