No doubt you’ve heard the news that the EPA has ruled that Greenhouse Gases are ‘dangerous pollutants’. Time to regulate trees, animals, oceans, underground coal seams. It appears that the age of reason is over.
I am astounded at the number of times that those preaching the end of the world got it wrong. Climate cooling, global warming, ice ages, overpopulation, aids, food shortages. Every proposed solution is more radical.
The Wall Street Journal Opines:
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said yesterday that her ruling that greenhouses gases are dangerous pollutants would "cement 2009's place in history" as the moment when the U.S. began "seizing the opportunity of clean-energy reform." She's right that this is an historic decision, though not to her or the White House's credit, and "seizing" is the right term. President Obama isn't about to let a trifle like democratic consent impede his climate agenda.
With cap and trade blown apart in the Senate, the White House has chosen to impose taxes and regulation across the entire economy under clean-air laws that were written decades ago and were never meant to apply to carbon. With this doomsday machine activated, Mr. Obama hopes to accomplish what persuasion and debate among his own party manifestly cannot.
This reckless "endangerment finding" is a political ultimatum: The many Democrats wary of leveling huge new costs on their constituents must surrender, or else the EPA's carbon police will inflict even worse consequences.
You may want to look at an earlier piece WSJ Absurd Results
The opening to the CC conference shows that the ‘scare tactics’ continue with the movie from yesterday:
The green genie is out of the bottle and it looks like he’s mad. The CC supporters claim that future generations will look back ion this generation with gratitude for saving the planet. I’m pretty sure that future generations will look back in awe, astounded at the ignorance of man by allowing thugs in suits acting as politicians and scientists, supported by a gullible public, to destroy global economies based on fake science.
Ayn Rand pegged it 50 years ago. Time to re-read Atlas Shrugged.
You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against -- then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. Your fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system...that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be easier to deal with.
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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