Per the NYT, climate change is exacerbating severe water management issues in West Virginia, but the residents would rather live with floods than give up their forlorn dreams of a return of the coal industry. What should be done with these people?
As with vaccine and mask mandates, in a perfect world, the punishment would fit the crime. Parents who refuse to let their kids wear masks in school should be required to educate them privately at their own expense. Employees with minimal contact with the public should lose their health insurance; workers with more public exposure should be fired. And as to climate change deniers who style themselves rugged individuals, they should be left without any public assistance when the disaster arrives. That’s justice.
It won’t happen, of course, but it should. Abortion opponents should pay higher taxes to deal with the myriad of social problems arising from the births of millions of unwanted children, too.