Consider this article in the Sydney Morning Property Advertiser.
Peter Hannam points out that the people of Houston bear a greater responsibility than most for this particularly disaster (10 dead at the time of writing this) because Houston hosts the headquarters or significant operations of several major oil and gas companies.
At the risk of over-simplifying his sophisticated and nuanced point, the flow of logic goes thus;
– The climate is changing catastrophically
– This hurricane was mainly caused by this catastrophic change in climate
– Human activity (burning fossil fuel) is mainly responsible for the catastrophic change in climate
– Houston is a major centre for the production of fossil fuel
– Therefore, everyone in Houston deserves this (un)natural disaster, including the 10 dead people, presumably
One wonders whether Peter has realised that this is the environmentalist equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church loudly picketing funerals of fallen soldiers? Love the sinner, hate the sin, anyone?
Let’s look at the flow of logic again. We’ll ignore the first one as there are plenty of resources on the internet where we could debate away whether it’s true or not.
The second statement is easy to prove or disprove; the data from the Hurricane Research Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory of the United States can be found here. 1886 saw the most land-falling hurricanes, 1950 had the most major hurricanes.
Let’s leave aside the third statement for the same reason we avoided the first.
There’s little point debating whether or not Houston or Texas as a whole is or isn’t an oil and gas hub, just ask JR Ewing.
So, the last point; did everyone in Houston deserve this weather event? Of course not, there are many people living there who have never made their living from fossil fuels, including children, obviously.
In the meantime, one assumes that Peter has never benefited from anything manufactured from plastic, heated or cooled his home, worn nylon, taken an overseas holiday, driven a car or taken a taxi, etc. because he would obviously have to be considered as having the blood of 10 Houstonians on his hands, wouldn’t he?
Bill’s Opinion
Peter Hannam is an ambulance-chasing, virtue-signalling cunt who believes that his position on climate change justifies an extreme lack of human compassion.
See also Paul Ehrlich.