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February 26, 2008
U.K. Global Warming Hoaxers Move toward Absolute Control
Posted by Dave Blount at February 26, 2008 9:13 AM
British totalitarians now want to impose cap-and-trade lunacy on individuals, giving everyone a "carbon allowance" so that they don't emit too much utterly harmless CO2. This would exceed the wildest dreams of Stalin and Hitler, giving authoritarian bureaucrats absolute control over every aspect of our existence, all in the name of a manufactured crisis with zero validity.
This appalling attempt to squash out the last vestiges of liberty has actually been endorsed by U.K. environment secretary David Miliband. The British government is currently exploring the feasibility of imposing it.
Even the Boston Globe admits:
Carbon dioxide is an inevitable byproduct of most modern human activities.
This should be corrected to read: "an inevitable byproduct of ALL human activities." Our very breath contains CO2. Fortunately, it is absolutely harmless. In fact, plants need it to live.
If there were such a thing as global warming caused by greenhouse gases, the culprit would be water vapor, not CO2. But don't tell the bureauweenies from Airstrip One, or they'll ban hot showers.
The individual emission caps would be lowered each year, so that we are allowed to exist less and less until eventually we don't exist at all.
As always, scratch the green skin and you will find communist red underneath:
One of the main attractions of this idea is its equity. The outsized carbon footprints of the wealthy — those who fly by private jet and live in McMansions — would come with an extra price tag, so the penalty would fall on the people most able to afford it. The poor, who generate much lower emissions, could actually turn a profit by selling their surplus.
In other words, leftists hope to use the phony crisis to impose coercive wealth redistribution. What the Soviet Union with all its nuclear weapons never managed to accomplish, the squishy, lying moonbats who run our bureaucracies and bring us our "news" still might.
On a tip from baldeagle390.
