Posted on 06/11/2008 5:21:49 AM PDT by SJackson
In Charles Krauthammer's May 30 must-read column, "Carbon Chastity," he rightly lambastes environmentalists as resurrected communists/socialists who have latched on to the environment and climate change as a means to advance their anti-people social agenda.
The specific occasion for his justifiable outrage is a recent proposal by a British parliamentary committee to institute a personal carbon ration card for every citizen.
The plan would place limits on food and energy consumption in the form of credits not to be exceeded — except through the potential for heavy-carbon users, often the wealthy, to purchase credits from lower-carbon users, often the less wealthy. In other words, their answer to global warming is wealth redistribution.
Though I thoroughly endorse Krauthammer's condemnation of the plan, I have to take issue with his adoption of loaded terms straight out of the green lexicon to argue his point.
In trying to position his agnosticism on whether man-made CO2 emissions are actually cause for concern, his column begins: "I am not a global warming believer. I am not a global warming denier."
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Hey, Steven, if the flora are stampeding, there's obviously *something* major going on! Watch out - kudzu!!!
LOL!
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Since the eras of Wilson, FDR, and Johnson,
leftists have tried to find any “crisis” imaginable and couch it in warlke terms, all with the goal of pushing a collectivist domestic agenda.
The main reason they’re PO’d about the war on terror is that it isn’t being used to forward their collectivism.
How many times have you heard the argument that we’re “not sacrificing enough” on the homefront to persue this war? That’s what they mean - we’re not being collectivist enough for their liking, and it means that the war effort is being wasted, in their opinion.
I have a special term reserved for Steve Milloy. I’d love to have the chance to tell it to him personally.
I take issue with the idea that Krauhammer has adopted the term. "Denier" and "carbon footprint" are already terms in the popular lexicon. Ignoring that won't make them go away or lose effectiveness. Making fun of them and otherwise exposing their baselessness does reduce their effect. As for the word 'believer' for an opposite to 'denier' I think "purveyor" would be more accurate. Global Warming/Climate Change 'proponents' are selling something not teaching something. They are more like used car salesman than preachers although I concede the overlap in psychological makeup in certain cases.
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