[relictele]

In Las Vegas, Nevada, they build artificial waterfalls and big roads for big cars because opulence and wastefulness are part of the city's raison d'etre. Las Vegas residents have no moral qualms about their lifestyle and the excesses they see around them. Oil and water have always come from somewhere, they reason, so why should that stop? It makes perfect sense that, in Washington, Nevada's senators and lobbyists would champion the causes important to their voters: growth, employment and progress -- all without taxes or regulation. From their perspective, there is no good reason why rivers in the desert should ever run dry.

I know this is a translation and idioms are always tricky but this author is attributing thoughts, attitudes and actions to literally millions of people with no apparent proof, research or sources. Furthermore I have yet to hear a single person from Las Vegas or anywhere else espouse such views.

It sounds like a greenie claiming that lumberjacks only fell trees because they like to watch them crash down.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Does he even realize that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is from Nevada?

[relictele]

The question is: How can this be changed? Assuming that one side is indeed right this time -- not just because the existence of climate change has been proven without a doubt, but also because it is abundantly clear that the United States has played a bigger role in bringing about climate change than any other country -- how can politics and the way American society thinks and acts be changed? And how quickly?

Oh God....it's worse than the first paragraph.

[KarlInOhio]

It sounds like a greenie claiming that lumberjacks only fell trees because they like to watch them crash down.

There's also that one last plaintiff H^ooooooooooo_oooooooooot from the spotted owls riding the tree down.