In yet another obvious breach of anything that could be considered “transparency”, Congress proceeded to push the health care bill/debate forward. The Republicans, at least, voted unanimously against moving forward on a debate and eventual vote, while the Democrats and Independents all voted to proceed. We have been repeatedly assured that the bill would die in the Senate, allaying fears after its surprising pass in the House, but such assurances seem more and more shaky.

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As a person with a passion for the environment, I find it deplorable that so many who claim to be environmentalists are destroying the pro-environment cause by pushing concerns about climate change. I will list out a number of ways in which the whole scare is causing real damage to the planet, whether the intentions are pure or not. With the December 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen looms, I think it is time to call the environmentalist movement on its colossal error.

Representatives from 170 countries are expected to be at the Copenhagen conference, as well as a whole host of other people, discussing one tiny aspect of environmental concern. The rest of the concerns, unfortunately, are hardly even being addressed. This is the first and most important way that the environmentalist moevement has strayed from the path. There are real ways in which humans are impacting their environment negatively, but none of them are being addressed. I suppose they aren’t “big enough” to scare whole nations into cooperation, making them far less powerful as a political tool.

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