So I just saw a little blurb in the paper that says China has told the
"rich" nations (tht would be US and Europe) that they should be the ones
to pay money for "global warming" (or is it "climate change") taxes and
fees and other extractions and rules and regulations and requirements,
since they have been warming the globe longer than China has, and that
China will go ahead with their plans unimpeded by such requirements.
(Sounds like a big GFY, thank you very much.) Hmmmm...
In China they are building a coupla coal-fired power plants a week,
using really really dirty coal (the good stuff is used for industrial
processes) and no emissions control equipment whatsoever. And there are
like a billtwo of them wanting to live like we do, drive bigass cars,
have air conditioned houses, lots of electrical appliances and gadgets,
make gazillions of dollars (yes, dollars). And India is on the same
course, another bill or so of them. They are making nice with Africa to
get oil from there, I'm sure environmental and human rights issues are a
big concern there (wait, didn't I just read a story about how well the
Chinese companies treat the Africans?). Has Algore flown his
carbon-credited G5 over there pushing them to clean up their act, go
green, conserve, limit consumption, pay carbon taxes, buy carbon
credits, install emissions controls, show his movie in their schools,
etc etc? I missed it if he has.
This whole deal, whether true or not, has been perverted into another
"tax the rich" scheme. In US and Europe there are people who have the
time and interest and agenda to press the issue, by virtue of the
success of Western economies and life styles and political systems that
allow for this. And there are mechanisms (a willing press, eeeevil SUV
haters, lefties with an agenda, scientists looking for the next hot
thing to get grants to study, unquestioning masses of highly-educated
actors and pundits, and govt functionaries looking for their cause) for
them to promote this whole thing. How far would all these folks get in
China or India if they started agitating to put things on a better path
when the chance is there to start from near scratch? Maybe a bullet to
the brain, that they have to pay for? Seems to me to be, in part, a
case of misplaced effort. Most all of us could do everything we could
to reduce our "greenhouse gas" emissions and "carbon footprints," and 3X
more would be coming from those growing economies that very clearly have
no interest in slowing it down by this fluffstuff.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...Oh, and check out the
progressive Nancy Pelosi's demand to have a nice big govt jet at her
disposal, to go off and find facts I suppose.
--R (still waiting to be convinced, but "studying" the matter and
putting veggie oil in Brunnhilde)
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