The Psychology of Climate Control

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I awakened this Christmas Eve morning to find 8 inches of snow on my patio table. Snow was still coming down, and the wind was howling like a banshee. As you know, we don't usually get that much snow in Lubbock. Not that we don't need every bit of moisture we can get. The ducks were even walking on the bottoms of the local ponds (playas).

As I was protected from the storm in my nice warm house, I started to read about "Crossroads in Copenhagen" in the December 14th issue of Chemical and Engineering News. I read about Todd Stern, Yvo de Boer, Anders Turesson, and Lumumba Stanislau-Kaw Di-Aping and started to wonder where these people obtained their egos to believe that they can be instrumental in changing world climate. We can't even control local rainfall in Lubbock so that the ducks have a place to swim, nor can we cancel devastating tornadoes that come our way. Those are only local consequences of weather. If we can't do little jobs, how can we expect to do a big one like global climate control?

Perhaps the Sterns, de Boers, and Turessons obtained their superegos from universities, but that can't be completely right. I went through the same system and still recognize man's limitations. God made man and other animal forms to adapt to the systems he made up. We breathe oxygen by use of lungs. It's not up to us to decide whether we should redesign the lung or even change the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere. Look up on a starry night and see the billions of galaxies at a distance of what we call infinity, although we don't really understand it.

Yet, God made ego as part of man, presumably for purpose. That purpose may be a tool for persistence in pursuing adaptability or even expansion. But we also know the existence of excess. A super compassionate person weakens and ultimately destroys himself in accepting responsibility for underprivileged animals, human adults, and children beyond his capability. Unfortunately, persons of super ego do not destroy themselves in promoting projects beyond any logical ability for accomplishment. They destroy society.

God may have an answer for handling super egoists. Perhaps we already know it. Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin have disappeared. Maybe we don't like the schedule of the disappearance, but God works on His own time schedule. Another thing that the super egoists can't control.