An artist has placed signs around the New Hampshire Seacoast to heighten awareness. Labeled the Seacoast Remembrance Project, these signs detail some future action that was taken as a result of climate chaos (or presumably because of our failure to act on it).
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To counter that apathy, Starr and others have turned to public art to get the message out that climate change is coming to New England communities. The markers imagine events like a boathouse destroyed in a storm surge from a Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 24, 2032, or a heat-inspired tick outbreak that forced a park to close on June 8, 2044.
Durham-4: Gazebo relocated due to recurring flooding caused by sea-level rise March 2057
Durham-2 reads, “All downtown buildings powered by 100% renewable energy July 20, 2024.”
Not unrealistic that, though insanely expensive unless we want to get real about “history.” If we move the date back to the mid-1800s Durham’s town offices were “powered” by “renewables,” assuming you think wood, candles, or even whale oil are ‘renewable’ energy.
It’s silly, but then that’s what this has been reduced too — scaring people with nonsense based on a partisan economic-political agenda.
Durham Administrator Tom Selig, one of the partisans, is quoted as saying.
“We read on the news about the Arctic ice caps melting and impacts on polar bears,” said Durham’s Town Administrator Todd Selig. “But that is very hard for someone in Durham, New Hampshire, going about their busy life to relate to and to grasp.”
Todd, it’s harder to grasp for reasons you find impossible to understand. But perhaps I can help. I have a similar “artistic” project in mind — markers identifying all the places where climate cultists predicted catastrophic events for political or economic gain that never happened.
Here is a list of more than 40 of them in the past few decades for starters. All of them ridiculously wrong.
When you are that wrong that often regular people ignore you like some crazy uncle at Christmas who thinks he back in the Big One. Unlike that horror the ones you promise never happen, but you still insist you can prevent them if the people let you make everything cost more.
Maybe they’ve figured it out. The “problem” is your collective mental health, or perhaps you are just dishonest liberals looking for a way to deny folks their lifestyles and liberties. Neither of these is much of a sell when the beach at Hampton seems the same as it was in 1940.
That’s right; the experts also predicted it would be gone by 2020.
“[I]n 1995 2500 experts got together and decided they could make a comfortable living if they said things like in 25 years “most of the beaches on the East Coast would be gone.”
2020, that’s next year. There are no artsy signs that I’m aware of predicting it’s doom. But then the beach isn’t gone either.
So, I feel quite comfortable adding these new “predictions” to the list of failures because they are less art and more acts of fraud. Public pressure tactics to advance partisan economic redistribution disguised as art. Whose premise hinges on the impossible. That even if we believed it, the government could do anything but screw it up at ten times the cost.
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