...was intended to point out how asinine is your assignment of base motives to informed people concerned about global warming. Contrary to your belief, not everyone involved in this issue is uninformed or working out of jealousy and envy or for other base reasons.

So you're saying that people who are fighting global warming are doing so out of jealousy?

Another "parable" (I'll use your cat scenario): These two cats, Fred and Jack, were living in two different houses. Fred told Jack that his house had a hole in it, but Jack knows for a fact that there was no hole. Fred continued to tell Jack that there was indeed a hole. Then he told the rest of the neighborhood that there was a hole even though Jack had done several thorough searches of his own house and knew for a fact that no such hole existed. So Fred, being upset that Jack would not listen to his warnings, decided to call the local politicians and tell them that Jack's hole was causing a problem in the neighborhood, despite no evidence of a hole or any real neighborhood problems. The politicians, afraid that Fred and his community would not vote for them the next election cycle, decided to tell Jack that he needs to invest in a company that their friend owned which will retrieve all of the loose rats. Jack, knowing that the loose rats were not from his house and that he had no hole, refused to purchase the services of the rat retreival company - which did not fix the alleged problem in the first place...the hole. Fred and the politicians decided to force Jack to give up a percentage of his catnip every month to pay for rat retrieval in another community. The politicians then told Fred that he would receive some of the catnip from Jack for his hardships of living near a "rat polluter" - even though extra rats would benefit Fred and his cat friends greatly and that rats were already found throughout the neighborhood prior to the neighborhood's existence and long before the hole (that did not exist) was alleged to exist in Jack's house. After several years of this confiscation of Jack's catnip, with no reduction in the amount of rats in the neighborhood, the politicians decided to take the catnip kickback away from Fred and demand that Fred and his neighbors actually give up some of their catnip to other distant communities who do not have as much catnip to throw around. They also told Fred's community that they need to stop eating rats and start throwing the rats away instead. They were told that the remainder of their catnip every month - after the politicians had confiscated enough for the other communities - would be plenty to live on and that they should be grateful to have it. Then one day, Jack saw Fred and his family out in the back yard digging up to feed on what little grass remained. Jack called out to Fred, "Hey buddy. Do you still think I have a hole in my house?" To which Fred replied, "I never thought you did. I was just jealous that your house was bigger than mine and that you could afford to eat more rats than me." Then Jack said, "That's what happens when you're too worried about what everyone else has instead of striving to be your best and becoming a productive citizen. I tried to tell you that no problem existed, Fred. Now you have to deal with your own stupidity and try to convince the government that their new laws and bureaucracies are not necessary. Good luck with that, you dumbass." The End. *If you're interested in reading my articles, Click Here.

Once upon a time there were two cats. Let’s call them Fred and Jack. They lived in an old deserted house that was filled with rats. The huge supply of rats kept them well fed. One day, Fred noticed that there was a small hole in a wall of the house. It wasn’t very big and it wasn’t very noticeable, but Fred saw that every so often a rat would squeeze into it and escape the house, running away and never being seen again. He worried that the hole might get bigger and more and more rats might escape. “Oh, you’re such a worrier,” Jack said, scooping up an available rat, popping it in his mouth and falling asleep. But Fred couldn’t help but worry. He saw the hole slowly getting bigger and more and more mice escaping. He knew he needed to plug the hole but he was a cat, not a carpenter, so how could he fix it? He tried everything he could think of –standing guard over the hole and scaring the rats away from it – but he couldn’t do that 24 hours a day, and Jack refused to help. He shoved an old piece of newspaper over it, but the rats soon ate through that, just as they were gnawing at the hole and making it bigger and bigger and more and more were escaping. And Jack still dismissed his friend’s worries. “Tosh!” Jack said scornfully. “Don’t be such an alarmist. You look like a fool.” Soon the hole was big enough for five or six rats to get out at a time. Many rats still chose to stay in the house, but many had also left. Fred this time tried chewing up bits of newspaper, making it pulpy, and tried plastering over the hole, but he couldn’t chew enough to cover the whole thing, and the rats soon ate through that as well. “Yeesh,” Jack said. “Chill, would you?” But Fred couldn’t chill. Day after day, he saw rats fleeing as the hole got bigger and bigger. There was an old deserted wardrobe near the hole; if Fred could knock it over on its side, it would cover the hole. He tried to get Jack’s help, but he refused. So Fred kept trying to push it over on his side. Day after day he pushed and pushed, but couldn’t get it to move. He tried taking a running start and jumping against it, which worked a little better but which still wasn’t good enough. Yet he kept on trying and one day he ran from so far and so fast and made such a fine leap that the wardrobe teetered and then fell on its side, blocking the hole. With their exit blocked, no more rats could leave. Within a few months, the rat population returned to normal. Looking out over the rooms filled with nice, tasty rats, Jack turned to Fred and said, “See what a worrywart you are? We have plenty of food, and you went and worried about that silly hole for no reason at all.”