Corporate managers and competent governments faced with a crisis pull out the stops, rally available resources, and vigorously fight off the crisis with everything at their disposal
We are told, ad nauseum, that the world is facing a climate crisis. To add to the hysteria, we are told that we are quickly reaching the point of no return. We are not doing enough, and not soon enough to prevent catastrophe. Now we are told that fires in the Amazon rain forest are an international crisis. G-7 leaders meeting in Paris pledged aid to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – finding equal to about equal one day’s cost of the G-7 meeting. Why didn’t the G-7 leaders insist that the Amazon rainforest be declared a world heritage site under protection from damage? All four nations, who have parts of the rain forest in their territory, are signators to the world heritage conventions, and would then have an obligation to protect the portions in their jurisdiction. Aid offered to help protect a heritage site lacks the political hazards of not doing so. The term “crisis” has become meaningless. The Intergove...