LETTERS: REAL POLLUTERS ARE LIBERAL EDUCATORS

To the editor:

In his recent letter on so-called global warming, Alan Journet went off on columnist Cal Thomas and other rightist commentators as if they were dictators who want every American to march in step to their tune and, when confronted with all this evidence for global warming, merely stick their heads in the sand and deny it.

If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black. Leftists would love nothing more than make all of us live in tiny, energy-efficient cubicles and drive boring electric cars. And when it comes to the environment, they are the ones sticking their heads in the sand.

I learned way back in second grade that the earth's climate has warmed up and cooled dramatically several times in the past. At one time, the earth was warm enough that vegetation was flourishing in Greenland. People were living there in settlements until the climate cooled and froze them out. This occurred long before the founding of the U.S. and the industrial revolution. Could this mean climate changes back then were naturally occurring events, or was old Thag the caveman driving around too much in his '59 Cadillac? Makes me wonder about the wisdom of the big salaries universities are paying instructors who can't remember their second-grade science.

If we got rid of all our modern conveniences, would we be better off? Imagine how great summer would be if we all rode horses. Just think of the sweet smell from all the droppings and urine in the streets, not to mention the fly and disease problems we'd have. If we still heated our homes with coal furnaces instead of central air, we could sit back and watch all the pretty black smoke drift across the sky. A 1940 article in Life magazine featured how smoke pollution from coal furnaces was so bad in St. Louis that people driving into the city from the country had to turn on their headlights to see. This problem resolved itself once everyone switched over to central heat. What a terrible thing for the environment this kind of progress is.

No, Mr. Journet, Cal Thomas and other commentators are not denying facts on global warming. They are merely showing us that the real polluters are the liberal educators who fill our children's minds with garbage. As I raise my son, one of the main things I will teach him before going off to college is the old saying, "Beware of educated fools."

LEONARD MITCHELL WILLE

Jackson