God Granted Us Global Dimming

Global dimming is cooling our planet by more than a degree Celsius (1.8°F) and stokes fears that as we curb these types of air  pollution, 

global warming may escalate – npr.org

They’ve found that our filthy particulates help keep it from getting even a whole lot hotter

Our so-called pollution is actually providing us protection from that nasty sun

Now, just look at how foolish that expensive CO2 & pollution reduction might have been

Too bad the future is dimming as well, just as fast as our wasted past fades away

Looks like the kids are getting duller too, what with the carcinogens and our bad schools

Squishy expectations of sustainability have been tamped down quite a bit as well

Thank god for the sulfurous emissions that protect us from the rising CO2

Praise be to the Chinese for not building those expensive clean coal power plants

Our paranoid night lights reflect back off the vast protective smog clouds of our own making

We do our small parts by collecting bits of soot in our once pink and healthy lungs

God don’t let India stop producing the haze that shades the entire Indian Ocean

For we don’t want that frozen arctic methane to thaw, burping up to the surface

The conservatives were right, this pollution control would have been expensive and wasteful

Goddamn it’s patriotic to belch out the diesel smoke that helps to keep us nice and cool

Better not clean up the water cause when it’s clear it absorbs much more heat

We rest quietly beneath our own smoggy blanket reflecting back the sun’s hot rays

Good thing the sun looks dimmer thanks to all that arctic ice that’s melting

We better not clean up the air and make this warming a whole bunch worse

Everybody’s kids will just have to learn to do a little more with a whole lot less

Yup, this global dimming ain’t junk science like evolution or climate change

It sure goes to show you that the jury really was still out, just like on creationism

Intrusive & unnecessary expensive actions might have harmed our economy and cost us jobs

Now it’s all come clear that burning coal and oil actually helps to keep us cool

So this dark shadow that I have always feared is really just a protective dimming

If it’s darker it will be easier to ignore the poverty, filth, resource wars and plague

I begin to realize that I stumbled around because the light was just too bright

Probably we missed the real benefits from such as the ozone hole and DDT as well

Yup, this global dimming will also slow the threatening meltdown of the icecaps

Just shows that socialist knee-jerk reactionaries tried to lead us down false paths once again

We can tweak our cameras to remove the haze of smog that might taint our selfies

Those to come will find the dingy streets, dirty air and foul waters simply normal

And for us, the changes come on so slowly it’s like losing vision due to cataracts

So now we can justify muddling on some more while increasing our population

We can continue to worship greed and preach Social Darwinism in our mega churches

Let the marketplace blindly react to any problems that might unexpectedly arise

For global dimming has proven again the foolishness of liberal social planning