Uh Hunh... But Back to Climate Change
This article by Mark Steyn intrigues me somewhat:
In particular, this comment at the very end (I skim - shamelessly) caught my eye:
"As for the climate, you could take every dollar spent on "global warming" and blow it on internet porn, and the Earth's climate in 2050 will be pretty much what it would be anyway."
So yeah. The reason why it caught my eye is because I happen to agree with it. The way the system has been set up, without China and India signed on to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, too, it's pretty moot, all this Kyototude.
In the meantime, I'm slightly suspicious of the Right for not pointing out more forcefully (or at all, really), the clear and present fact that the rich are about to get richer brokering deals in the new high flying financial field of carbon credit trading (the rich who are, coincidentally or not, the same rich who got rich producing greenhouse gas emissions).
I mean, we already know all this stuff about Al Gore - the energy consumption at his castle in Tennessee, the global Big Foot print he leaves every time he takes off in his private jet to deliver a lecture on Global Warming to people dumb enough to pay to hear him drone on and on for hours and hours about his movie when you can rent it for just a few bucks and then fast forward to the end "Yup - I've seen it - An Inconvenient Movie - It went by very quickly", the failure to do a single Gawddamned thing about the environment when he was Vice-President of the United States, and so on and so forth and more of the same etc etc.
Why, you'd have to be either a complete idiot or a fellow traveller to think Al Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize instead of a great big kick in the pants.
So yeah. We get it about Al Gore, yaddayaddablahblah, but such is the way of the world. In the meantime, what I don't get, is why nobody is talking about who's going to pay for our greenhouse gas emissions when we don't meet these seemingly random targets everybody's talking about us not being able to meet now that we've got a New Conservative government in the Palace on the Hill even though we were signed on to the damn Kyoto thing some time ago by a Liberal government.
Call me a Canadian citizen who didn't vote for either government, but... where is this money we're going to be coughing up to pay for all this pollution we're not reducing going to go? Or rather, to be more pointed - to whom is it going to go?
Because this is what I don't understand, and what I think a lot of people don't understand, about all this gung ho talk 24/7 about how drastically we suddenly need to get moving on not meeting our targets for greenhouse gas emissions.
I realize we're a developed country and all, and, as such, must take much of the responsibility for the level of greenhouse gas emissions thus far, but some of us are more developed than the rest of us, if you know what I mean and I really don't think it's fair that we're all being treated equally now that the shit has hit the fan.
Furthermore, since we're the ones who are going to be taxed to pay for all this damage to the environment that was mostly caused by rich people, I think the tax rate should be reflective of that indisputable fact. Afterall, some people are more responsible than others for this mess and I would suggest that those same people also have a lot more money than people like say... me.
Finally, if all our efforts are for naught because China and India are going to spew ten times the greenhouse gas emissions we've already spewed into the atmosphere, and, since it's not like paying out millions of dollars to whomever we're going to be paying out millions of dollars will REMOVE our already spewed greenhouse gas emissions, anyway,- why are we doing it?
And why isn't the Right asking THAT question? For that matter, why isn't the Left? Where is everybody? Hello? Anybody home?
