I write in reaction to the letters of Matt Baumgartner, April 8, and Becky West, April 10. What I find totally absurd is their position that we should not have a choice in which light bulb to use.
The press keeps advocating that it is desirable to have a "choice" in killing unborn "humans". Total absurdity: no choice in light bulbs, but choice in abortion is good. Discerning people are more and more getting tired of this double standard. Increasingly, young people are recognizing the incongruous use of the word "choice" in this issue. They are voting for the culture of life instead of the culture of death.
Concerning global warming, 10 years ago the idea of a catastrophic flood caused by the melting of the polar ice would have been laughed off as "Chicken Little stuff." Indeed, many of the panic-stricken voices warning us that the end is near were the same prophets of disaster warning us about global cooling in the 1970s.
Yet in 2007, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, in no small measure as a result of his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," a film which a British court has ruled contains nine significant errors. Those errors, the court said, were made in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration." Even the thoroughly humanist New York Times cautioned its readers that "some of Mr. Gore's central points are exaggerated and erroneous." I bet you didn't read those facts in the Tribune.
