You can't say that with complete certainty.
To blithely suggest that human activities have zero impact on the surrounding environment is just as idiotic as saying that their impact dwarfs that of natural physical processes. I can be certain that humanity does have an impact on its surrounding environment, however, I believe that humanity, on the whole, has a super-sized ego and a penchant for arrogance...that's been around for a long time, in its attempts and desire to control the weather.
The bottom line here is that yes, human activities do influence the environment, but no, I don't think humans are sufficiently sophisticated to accidentally terraform an entire planet in just over two centuries. Now, if Sanford is arguing that the Government ought to protect the common, shared environment, just as New England towns once maintained their village greens as public property, by promoting such ideals as energy efficiency and conservation in the actions of Government with respect to public property, then yes, I wholeheartedly agree with him. The Government has a duty and obligation to the citizenry to not act in a wasteful manner. However, if he is promoting energy rationing and Government interference in the lives of individuals, e.g., through carbon cap-and-trade, then no, I won't support him.
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I was making an argument in private on his behalf yesterday. I’m getting a might bit sick at people now establishing standards for which are so high not even Christ Himself could measure up. The attacks on Palin, and now the stepped-up attacks on Sanford. Guess who we’re going to have left with ? Sanford is one of our best Governors in the country, and I’m not going to jump on this bash bandwagon. I don’t believe virtually any story that comes out of the MSM and even some allegedly “Conservative” outfits when the headline is Palin or Sanford. All they have to do is make a claim about this or that, and far too many of us will denounce them as a Socialist or idiot or whatever. We talk about the rodents being gullible, but a lot of us can wear those shoes just as well.
I don’t a small government man would support statist measures even if he’s fallen for the climate change mythology.
“If” he does, yes that’s no good. But does he, I doubt it.
http://www.chuckdevore.com/blog/tag/mark-sanford/
“As to global warming and laws to combat it by limiting greenhouse gas emissions, Sanford said, “I’m a Teddy Roosevelt conservative” (presumably, in T.R.’s interest in the environment, not in his progressive big-government Republicanism). But Sanford cautioned that most cap-and-trade measures amount to “unilateral disarmament” with other nations such as China and India being unhindered while America has to take the brunt of the economic cost in reducing emissions.”
Teddy R turned full tilt socialist Mark. But the quote signifies opposition to cap and trade.