The Children’s Crusade hits the Wall
Get out your gas masks and tin hats. We are under attack from a noxious army of doom-troopers demanding that we treat climate change as a rerun of the Second World War. In the latest move to militarise everyday life, the Environmental Audit Committee of MPs has seriously proposed energy rationing, aka “personal carbon credits”.
What next? Little (green) Hitlers patrolling the streets yelling “Put that high-energy light out!”? Or a campaign to bring back rickets? Everybody from the Prince of Wales to liberal newspapers and former Labour ministers now compares climate change to the war. Baroness Young of Old Scone, head of the Environment Agency, says this is “World War Three”. If it’s not breaking the Official Secrets Act, could somebody explain what on earth they are on about? The notion of a “war on carbon” makes even less sense than the glorious “wars” on terror/drugs/crime/whatever. times of london
The good news is that all over Europe people are fighting back against the science challenged doomsters:
After hundreds of angry drivers shut down highways in England yesterday in protest against green automobile taxes, and drivers and fishermen in France and Spain paralyzed their ports and roads in a fuel-tax protest, politicians began to signal Europe’s ambitious emission-control policies may soon have to be abandoned.
While Europe has led the way in using tax incentives to encourage people to buy low-emission cars and to build carbon-neutral houses in order to meet Kyoto targets, it has become increasingly apparent that inflation-battered voters are no longer willing to go along. globe and mail
No one who has spent more than ten minutes thinking about it could ever have expected the regular, normal, work a day, people of the West to buy into the Climate Change hysteria once it actually cost them something. A fact that Kyotoists like M. Dion has not quite come to grips with.
As the cost of making the bogey man of Global Warming go away begin to actually bite, there will be two results: first, people will vote against governments which make their lives more expensive. Second, people are going to want their governments to take a good hard look at the “science” and the cost benefit analysis of attempting to counter global warming by reducing carbon emissions. They are not going to like what they find.
Jigs up, shark’s jumped: time for the nattering nannies of global warming to find another cause around which to build an authoritarian state.
Written by jay on May 29th, 2008 with
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Brett_McS
#1. May 29th, 2008, at 8:04 PM.
That is so funny. The ecofascists want a “war” but they’re bringing out the white flag as soon as the average joe starts to fight back.
No one who has spent more than ten minutes thinking about it… You’re right - the greenies have spent no time thinking about it at all. They just jumped on the eco-bandwagon and started roaring (sing with me now) - “My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of Al Gore…”
I’m reminded of a scene from Inherit the Wind (probably because I watched it again recently) where the prosecutor is on the stand and responds to a question from the defence (very confused):
“I do not think about things that I do not think about.”
And the defence fires back:
“Do you ever think about things that you do think about?