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Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change – is there nothing we can’t blame it on?

Cape Town South AfricaThere is a water crisis going on in Cape Town, South Africa right now – they are expecting to run out of potable water in this city of 4 million people rather soon (a few months) and the Concord Monitor is both wringing its hands and bunching up its panties over it.  Given the headline of this post, you can quickly devine what it believes the root cause it. They actually say what they are but then quickly shift to their ideological casting:

…There are many factors that contributed to the crisis in Cape Town beyond the drought, such as outdated water infrastructure, and poor population planning and crisis management. And it’s not like the whole mess came out of nowhere. Baker cited this April 26, 1990, headline in the Cape Times as proof: “City will run out of water ‘in 17 years.’ ” The math may have been off, but the warning was clearly not taken as seriously as it should have been. Now 4 million people find themselves preparing for a worst-case scenario scheduled to arrive on May 11.

Cape Town’s lesson for a world living under the increasing strain of climate change is this: waiting for crises to move from the horizon to the front door before acting is an expensive and potentially catastrophic failure of government.

Sadly, that is too often the way in this short-sighted world, from Concord to Washington, D.C., to Cape Town, South Africa.

And this is TOTAL nonsense, 

and I told them so in a comment I left for them (they’ve been deleting my comments on a regular basis lately – it should give us all some thought as to their definition of what “Inclusive” really means – heh!) so I have carefully saved it here (I guess they haven’t yet figured out people can save web pages to their devices):

“Cape Town’s lesson for a world living under the increasing strain of climate change is this: waiting for crises to move from the horizon to the front door before acting is an expensive and potentially catastrophic failure of government.”

Ah yes, let’s let “Climate Change” be the universal bogeyman for every possible problem and crisis generator. Just like in California – we have no water because DROUGHT because CLIMATE CHANGE!

Sorry, not buying in this case. All the current CA Gov, Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown had to do was to look at the water infrastructure building that his Dad and his generation built; Moonbeam, not so much. Environmentalists with their NIMBY and BANANA outlook on growth said no to such infrastructure – and it stayed no. And forced their entire State to suffer for it.

Ditto for Cape Town. The pull quote says it all:

“…1990 headline in the Cape Times as proof: “City will run out of water ‘in 17 years.’ ””

Uh-huh – climate change? No, lack of political leadership being blamed on “climate change”. But that’s what the Concord Monitor wants you to believe that climate change trumps good planning and political will in the face of a problem that could have been mitigated (or at least, the start of doing such) by beginning to update their water infrastructure.

Climate Change = the lazy argument for lack of preparation and everyone being a victim. Humans are the most adaptable species on earth – there is no good reason to act as victims. Climate is ALWAYS changing either at the micro-level or thee macro level. Humans can’t stop it no matter how much they want to cast themselves as gaggle of King Canute’s – how’d that work out for him?

The source of their crisis is not Climate Change – it is human nature itself.  It is the realm of politics and its conflicting goals as well.  I also point out that the Concord Monitor still hasn’t discovered its own flaw which it always seems to put its ideological face into the path of its moving feet.  Seldom do we see it calling out Government for flaws; rather, it is a booster for larger and larger government to solve all ills.

And that’s what it returned to in “covering up” bad decisions.  This editorial skims over that problem and blame-shifts not the people in government making these bad decisions but for something out of the blue, or as Instapundit would say – UNEXPECTELDY!, which is Climate Change.

Got any ills at all?  The Left always wants to shift it to Climate Change.

Commenter on their site, Chip Nadeau, has it right:

I wonder if they could have considerd putting in one or two desalization plant [sic] years ago to get ready for the water shortage or if that is still an option.

After all, look at Israel on water problems, and it is obvious that with enough forethought and will, even water in a desert country can be fixed. Cape Town is surrounded by water – it is an ocean port.  Power supply shouldn’t have been a problem as Grokster Susan pointed out in another place:

The power utility system, once the envy of the world, is not far behind in its fragility.

She should know – she helped build power plants there.

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