Posted by
Average Voter on Monday, June 02, 2008 11:07:46 AM
Charles Krauthammer had an excellent piece today
via the Rocky Mountain News. His first sentence is what I believe and what most reasonable people believe also.
I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier. I’m a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can’t be very good to pump lots of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.
He also suggests that the enviromental movement has something else in mind.
Environmentalists are Gaia’s priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. (See Newsweek above.) And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment — carbon chastity — they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.
And what better way than to get the government to harness that control because, as we all need to understand, the government knows what is best for us.
There’s no greater social power than the power to ration. And, other than rationing food, there is no greater instrument of social control than rationing energy, the currency of just about everything one does and uses in an advanced society.
Control means power. Socialism...Literally.