(06-16-2009 03:43 PM)Artifice Wrote: - If you don't believe in global warming: What do you hope to gain by proving that you're right? What will you do about parallel issues such as pollution, oil dependence, natural resource depletion, etc?
- If you do believe in global warming: What do you hope to gain by proving that you're right? What will you do about parallel issues such as pollution, oil dependence, natural resource depletion, etc?
Few if any have ever said they do not believe in global warming/climate change/whatever it may be called. The name is besides the point. Humans impact the earth, we know that. But when a single volcanic can emit more CO2 than all of human history, I have to imagine the old Mother Earth will figure a way to adjust.
My beef with the climate alarmist is not the more admirable concerns about pollution, oil dependence, natural resource depletion etc, but with how some form of NGO or government will suddenly decide that my house is too warm, or my truck has to be turned into the local distribution collective for recycling, or that my suburban house is suddenly not climate approved and I will be forceably relocated to a tenement in the city.....
That bit of silliness aside, my very real concern is that climate change will further the distiction between the haves and the havenots, especially in Third World Countries, and even in the States. If I own a small business that cannot afford to replace my aging courier fleet, or upgrade my office to LEED efficiencies, that some nameless buro-crate will decide my taxes go up, or I'll be evicted, or I'll have to pay a carbon tax. I firmly belive that Capitalism and Democracy are the main ways to Freedom, and climate alarmism is an easy way for any ruling class to enact further legislation keeping people in poverty, or at least ennacting so many roadblocks to success that one cannot ever hope to live like Al Gore.
My fear is that climate change alarmists, without proper scientific reasons, will use climate change as an excuse to further tell people how to live. One may scoff at that concern, but for me and many others, a growing government is a very real concern, not in a jackbooted way, but in an intrusion into my life type of way.