Our friends at The People’s Cube have formulated The Man-Made Global Warming Wager, fashioned after Pascal’s Wager on the existence of God. The wager, says The People’s Cube, provides “an analytical process for the masses to evaluate their options.” Their conclusion? From a left-wing viewpoint, everyone would be better off believing in global warming, even if it doesn’t exist. Here are the possibilities:
- The masses believe in Global Warming and it really exists: we prevent climate change and kill capitalism: our gain is infinite.
- The masses believe in Global Warming but it doesn’t exist: we lose nothing but kill capitalism anyway and claim we saved the planet.
- The masses don’t believe in Global Warming and it doesn’t exist:
the growth of capitalist prosperity will continue unabated, distracting
the masses from the need to fight capitalism. Faith in socialism
withers away: our loss is infinite. - The masses don’t believe in Global Warming, but it exists and arrives to smite the nonbelievers: See #3, plus our beach homes get washed away: our loss is infinite.