Comments on: Global Warming Trojan Horse

By: Alan Cheetham

Alan Cheetham — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:19:01 +0000

In 2004 the United Nations University – World Institute for Economics Development Research (UNU-WIDER), published a study into possible scenarios for implementing a global tax. It states: “How can we find an extra US$50 billion for development funding? Our focus is on flows of resources from high-income to developing countries… Any foreseeable global tax will be introduced, not by a unitary world government, but as the result of concerted action by nation states… The taxation of environmental externalities is an obvious potential source of revenue. … Does this mean that the global tax should be levied at the same rate on all countries? To the extent that emissions impose environmental damage wherever they occur, the corrective tax should be the same. However, this needs to be moderated to take account of the unequal distribution of world income. Considerations of global justice point to poor countries bearing less of the cost burden, and may justify the tax being levied only on high-income or middle-income countries.”

See http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GW_History.htm for more details.

By: arc/mat

arc/mat — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:16:07 +0000

"Producers", Bearster?

We off-shored that long ago. We're a nation of lawyers and baristas who make a living selling our houses back and forth to each other.

Materialism and conspicuous consumption are making us [and everyone else] miserable.

By: Al Fin

Al Fin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:41:55 +0000

In my younger days I spent a lot of time at intentional communities, where most people are instinctively leftist and often left-anarchist. I can "feel it" immediately when an argument (no matter how it is disguised) is coming from the leftist/social justice/anti-globalist/anti-western point of view.

The problem for the rest of us is that "global warming" and the other causes have become moral issues--science no longer matters. Because the media is on board for the moral crusade, the unthinking masses are pulled along. Because the K-12 government schools are on board the bandwagon, most children and youth go along for the ride.

If the major institutions of learning and information processing are pushing the moral cause, a cursory glance at the "bell curve" of IQ and executive function suggests that the majority will eventually float with the current. In a democratic society, that spells big problems for the future.

By: Bearster

Bearster — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:43:14 +0000

"...punishing Americans for being the voracious consumers that we are."

You mean for being the prodigious producers that we are, right?

Before one can consume, one must produce. It's production that marxism attacks more than anything else.