Climate Bill Doesn't Go Far Enough

Doesn't go far enough??? What? The Stone Age isn't far enough? India and China LAUGH at our pathetically stupid Useful Idiots...all the way to the bank. Reply

Yes, Doc, one has to laugh at such willful ignorance and obstinacy-- or it could become depressing. http://www.commondreams.org/view/ 2009/06/27-1 Reply

I made a promise to Clarke that I would not discuss the issue of present day global warming again. But I did not say that I would not discuss the history of it. It's ironic that when oil was first discovered at the turn of the century, it had no use. Churchill, who is dead and doesn't care, chose to convert the British Navy to oil before WW1. Because, of course, they held Iran in their palm and the future BP company could use a boost. And then we had John D.--who can forget the picture of his first well, and then Ford who made it all work. And let's not forget Dwight D. who in his rightly- minded way of ensuring our freedom started the highway system with the idea that every bridge be tall enough to take a tank. That none of these people for saw a problem with the mass burning of fossil fuel says that the problem today is rather a complete surprise. The simple fact that we love both diamonds and cheap electricity says something rather profound about our lack of basic chemistry. Both are enticing and both can be reduced to simple chemistry. As much as a diamond says I love you is as much as cheap carbon based fuel says use me. Intoxicating. Who would fight that? Women who don't want to believe that their bit of carbon diamond which fuels all the violence in South Africa are soulfully intertwined with all the people who look at their electricity and don't want to see that it too comes with a price. If you can ignore the blood on your carbon diamond, I don't think that it is a stretch to ignore that the carbon in the atmosphere can be chemically reduced to whether it came from a fossil fuel or a belching tree. If you prefer to stick your head in the sand--well that just means you're afraid. And that's fine but to mutter to others that their fears are stupid while you are totally unwilling to face them means that you are both hiding from the facts and disavowing them at the same time. And there is a word for that--propaganda. Reply