Bøger af John Rickey

There seems to be a hysteria today about global warming especially from the so-called environmentalists who want us to stop using fossil fuels. They don't appreciate what fossil fuels have done for our standard of living, life expectancy and quality of life. They believe we are headed for the imminent destruction of our planet and the end of our civilization. Polar ice is melting, oceans are rising, end of days are here, the world's economy will collapse, and it is all mankind's fault.The destruction of our planet Earth will not happen by our utilizing fossil fuels or by our putting CO2 into our atmosphere. Oceans may rise and fall and green house gases may increase and decrease but the Earth will continue to rotate around the sun and the moon will continue to rotate around the Earth. The Sun will still be the center of our solar system and we will continue to be dragged on a 250 million year orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy, long after mankind has disappeared from the planet.Think about it. The Earth has been rotating around our Sun for 4.5 billion years. It has been evolving thru the millenia to more readily support our life. In the next 10 years the Earth will not go spiralling off into space.The world's economy will certainly collapse if we eliminate fossil fuels. Millions of jobs would be lost and entire industries would be destroyed.The center of the Earth is 10,000 °F. Man didnt cause that. We have nothing to do with volcanic activity, on the Earth's surface or under Antarctica. We are not responsible for ocean vents belching up material from the Earth's core. We didn't cause continents to drift or mountains to rise and we are not responsible for the heat or radiation from the Sun. We are not responsible for clouds or ocean currents or the jet stream. We had nothing to do with the extinction of millions of species, most from before man was on the planet. We just need to employ some common sense here.

What would happen if the same bureaucratic red tape and complexity existed in the U. S. government at the time of the Revolutionary War? This is the hilarious story of a patriotic blacksmith who, in 1776, just wants to help the cause and make cannons for the war-but encounters one frustration after another, based on today's new rules and regulations. This satiric tale shows how the U. S. colonies would have likely never won their freedom if things were as they are today. This is one story that should be required reading for all government employees.