What’s the alternative narrative?

I can see that Peter Lees (Letter to the Editor, The Courier, Tuesday) is a deep thinker and well read.

So I’m interested in his alternative narrative.

If it’s not a climate crisis – what is it? A wild conspiracy?

Should we simply ignore the measurements of atmospheric CO2 that clearly indicate they are on the rise?

Or does he accept these measurements but then chooses to believe that this will have no impact on the climate?

Should we recalibrate the instruments and take another reading?

I find his way of looking at our current predicament fascinating. Continuing to knowingly pollute the water and the air and believe there are no lasting consequences of altering the very components of the planet that support life on earth is a vast imaginative leap.

And what does he suppose will happen if the current trajectory of gross wealth disparity continues unchecked.

I’m unsatisfied with the explanation that western civilisation is on a slippery slope downhill and we should give up.

I’m unsatisfied with the idea of keeping poor people poor.

I think nations with dubious regimes are dubious because they have nothing. Nothing to lose.

Ideas are increasingly circulating about ways to even out wealth distribution because we know that poverty is causing some of the greatest issues faced by humanity – over population for instance.

The growing human population is draining resources beyond the point that the earth can safely support us and this has been happening for decades.

We know that people with an education and some money have less children because they have a choice in the matter.

We know that a good education and opportunity makes people less vulnerable to extremist ‘dubious’ ideologies.

So leaving the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer makes no sense to me.

If anything, it makes the wealthy minority more vulnerable and less powerful as they are increasingly outnumbered by the poor masses clutching their extremist ideologies and ruled by dubious leaders.

I know I’m being rude and making a mockery which is not in the spirit of Christmas – but climate deniers and people who worship capitalism need to be mocked until they come up with a better narrative.

A better explanation for the fact that the country is burning, global temperatures are rising and biodiversity loss is accelerating.

A better solution to gross wealth disparity other than just leaving it to the free market.

But back to the climate conspiracy – if it’s not greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere – heaven help me, what is it? Armageddon?

Sorry, but I’m with the little girl from Stockholm on this one.

You can’t get away with saying climate change is simply untrue, and that poor people need to stay poor because they have whacky ideas, and offer nothing further.

Merry Christmas.

Virginia Tapscott, Narrabri