Posted on 01/18/2007 9:50:17 AM PST by nancyvideo
They're exempt not because they're Communist. They're exempt because they already have : population control, redistribution and more government.
Those of us older than 35, who were PAYING ATTENTION at the time, remember all the articles in the news mags, about how the World Socialist Movement would move to take over environmentalism after the Fall of the Soviet Union...
They would "Create" a crisis(Global Warming), and then use it as the excuse to push for first, Socialist governments, and then eventually one world-wide Socialist Soviet, under the control of the Communist Party...
I REALLY wish I could find one of those old articles, but I haven't got a Nexis account!
US Senate voted 95-0 against Kyoto....so I don't think they can get enough support. This is a very dangerous economic impact, and I'm not convinced that it is even possible to reduce "greenhouse gases" to pre 1990 levels even if everybody just simply stopped driving in the United States.
It's just a wealth redistribution scheme. Think of the logic of "carbon tax". Pay some 3rd world country not to build a coal power plant. So what does the 3rd world do with that money? Buy goods or services. Where do those goods have to be produced since that country doesn't have the means? Somewhere like the U.S. which has to produce more pollution. Then it has to be shipped back to that country. No net savings in carbon. In fact, because of shipping , it will increase the carbon put into the air. It's just a scheme to make liberals feel good.
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