Sometimes, reality is too painful for progressives to confront. That’s when they typically start creating their own alternative realities. As Andrew Klavan and Ben Shapiro demonstrate, both the hysteria and the reality of climate change are not really helpful as far as producing solutions that will actually benefit mankind.
If climate change is “real, the processes needed to inhibit it may be worse from a cost-benefit point-of-view than the measures needed to come to terms with it. And if it’s not real, not inhibiting it costs… nothing. Indeed, the cost of selling one’s beachfront property when one has an 85-year window to do so means potential losses will be minimal, rather than significant.
From Klavan’s perspective, movies like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth present a fiction that while gripping, bears no resemblance to actual reality. Therefore, solving the “problems” it presents is like hypothesizing all of the ways a fictional movie’s villain can live on to see two or three hugely profitable sequels.
In short, climate change believers are either living in a fantasy, or a nightmare that’s in such slow-motion that it’s possible to walk out for popcorn and literally not to have missed a thing when one returns. Either way, the possibilities of dealing with such a scenario are both eminently imaginable and affordable. Watch as Klavan and Shapiro manage to both entertain and inform viewers about this great hysteria of our time.
