And surely it is in keeping with this essentially religious outlook that the "solutions" chiefly offered to global warming involve radical changes to personal behavior, all of them with an ascetic, virtue-centric bent: drive less, buy less, walk lightly upon the earth and so on. A light carbon footprint has become the 21st-century equivalent of sexual abstinence.
And this one:
Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism. Take just about any other discredited leftist nostrum of yore – population control, higher taxes, a vast new regulatory regime, global economic redistribution, an enhanced role for the United Nations – and global warming provides a justification.
I had to translate an article about a resort a European hotel chain is building in Brazil, where they are going to take part in some kind of "carbon offset" scheme (basically extortion) in order to build there. All hotel guests will also be given a personal "carbon assessment," based upon which they will make an individual payment to this fund. I can't imagine anybody in their right mind who would want to stay there, but I'm sure there are people who are not only willing to put up with this assessment (which must inquire about things like the vehicle you drive and the size of your house, etc.) and probably even feel virtuous for doing so. It's utterly nutz.
Brazil ratified the Kyoto Protocol in August 2002.......
LOL Before they discovered all that offshore oil
Prior to that they thought they would be running their cars on sugar cane for good.
Eco-wackos like burning up corn and sugar cane to power automobiles. They like grain shortages
And Algore a pedophile priest?