Posts Tagged ‘global climate change’

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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Any of you who have followed any of my writing know that I am no fan of the Cap and Trade concept. I find it abhorrent that it even made it to a vote. Unfortunately it looks as though it is likely to pass, despite the outcry of the public, at least the productive public, against it.

Cap and trade represents the largest overall tax increase in our history. It will hit everyone who uses fuel or buys products from companies that use fuel. That means everyone in the country. That means rich and poor. That mean Obama’s talk about not increasing taxes on anyone but the rich is an absolute lie. Suprised? Read the rest of this entry »