Completely Radical Thought

I was thinking the other day and then this idea came to me. As the title of this post suggests, it was completely radical, but not in a particularly good way. With that in mind, I would also like to openly state right here and now that I do not personally subscribe to this theory of mine. I may have thought it up, but that does not mean I seriously believe this, though there may be a shred of truth in it, but it seems almost too malevolent to be true, so I hope it is not true.

Anyhow, it concerns global climate change, a touchy subject, I know. Just hear me out though. Alright. So I was sitting down here in boring ol' Iowa thinking about climate change. I am not sure how I actually go on the subject, but somehow I did. Then I started thinking about whether it was completely true or not, when I realized the timing of this declaration. If you think about it, most of the Western nations have completely industrialized. That industrialization affected the climate, no doubt, but countries in the West continued to expand and grow their economies. What about all those "Third World," lesser developed countries that are living in utter poverty? How are they going to industrialize if all of the Western powers chastise these poorer countries for harming the environment and affecting the climate?

This then led me to believe that these Western nations were simply trying to keep those poorer countries poor so they could continue to grow. It seemed almost contradictory. Many developed nations give loads and loads of aid to these countries to assist them in their issues and rebuild their economies and whatnot, but they do not want them to grow any further. This part of my theory just seemed to malicious to believe. Why would a country such as the United States ever do such a thing?

A good example is China. Everyone chastises China for producing too many harmful pollutants that they then put into the air or their water supply. Granted, it is definitely not a good thing they are doing, but that does not mean that we must look down on them. Especially since if we were to look back into our history, we would see that when we were first industrializing our cities looked pretty polluted as well. A good example that I can think of is London in the 19th century. Maybe Pittsburgh during the same time was pretty bad as well? I have to admit, I am not up to date on my U.S. history.

With this example in mind and in conjunction with everything else I have said in this post, it seems as if this may be a plausible theory. Maybe the timing for this global climate change is because we are starting to see nations develop and we don't actually want them to do that so we point out all of the environmental damage they are doing in hopes that they stop their industrialization.

I think that is about it for this post. I still have loads of other ones, but I will save them for later. I also feel as if my first few posts were really good and intense and now they are getting a bit weaker and not so great. This one, for example, does not seem to be that brilliant or anything, just some random thought conjured up by me. I dunno, maybe I am just being too critical of myself as I usually am.

In other news, I went to this room mate finder thing cuz I sorta need one for next school year and I found one, which made me insanely delighted. I also am all registered for next fall as well, and am excited to take Judaism, Religions of East Asia (in which we will discussion Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shintoism...pretty legit), a Spanish class, and a history class in which we look at the historical accuracy of films that are concerned with Medieval Europe.

Until next time...