Sunday, April 27, 2008
WORLD COOLING ON WARMING
“The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries,” writes Mark Steyn:
In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. On April 15, the Independent, the impeccably progressive British newspaper, editorialized: “The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world’s environment. So why on earth is the Government forcing us to use more of it?”
You want the short answer? Because the government made the mistake of listening to fellows like you.
Another enviroscam may cause hardship locally:
Low-income families in areas with poor public transport will be hundreds of dollars a year worse off than hard-up households in the inner city, under the Federal Government’s plan to introduce a carbon trading scheme.
Some politicians are wising up, according to Newsweek’s Evan Thomas:
In the summer of 2006 I went to see Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who was running the Democrats’ successful effort to regain control of the House of Representatives ... I asked Emanuel, how are the environment and global warming playing out there in the heartland? Is it stirring voters? No, he replied. In the 2006 congressional elections global warming was virtually a nonissue, he said, a low-priority item way behind the war and the economy and old staples like education and health care. Global warming is an issue for the elites, he said, not for the average voter ...
There is an enormous class divide on the subject. The chattering classes obsess about greenhouse emissions. The rest of the country, certainly the older and less well-off voters, can’t be bothered.
Good.
(Via AJ)