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CNS news reports that in the 1970’s John Holdron, Mr. Obama’s science adviser, stated that trees should be given rights in a court of law.
The logic behind giving trees standing in a court of law runs something like this:
- Men are part of nature.
- Trees are part of nature.
- If men can sue in court, trees must be able to sue in court, as well.
When we uncover the belief that man is a part of nature, we uncover the religious basis for the entire environmental edifice. In the Christian worldview, man’s relationship to nature is more like the person who “tames” tigers, or “trains” bears. The relationship is a bit more adversarial than we would imagine, and hence it’s a bit more dangerous than we like to think. You do what you can to keep the animal well fed, and cared for, but there’s always the chance the animal will decide to up and eat you, as well. It’s a bit foolish for us to think we really understand the way “nature” works, or to try and “control” nature in some way. At best we can interact with our local environment in a sound way, and stay out of the way when nature tries to eat us. Or throws a big rock at us in the form of a meteor (via TownHall).
Folks have often realized the big money to be made by working off people’s religious ignorance, such as traders who went through the land in the Middle Ages and sold pieces of “the true cross.” Their modern day equivalents are banks and international energy clearing houses selling “global environment change” as a way to enable the transfer of wealth from individuals into their bank accounts. For instance, Financial News Sense has an article detailing some of the connections, including a chart showing the amount of money the US Government has put into “climate research,” all of it going towards “proving” global warming. CNS News reports the US Government, itself, would need $16.6 billion to buy carbon credits. Who gets to pay for all those carbon credits? Taxpayers, of course.
All this money inevitably leads to scandal, because humans are inevitably corrupt. The first scandal out of the gate in this case is the absolute lying that goes on around the weather stations used to monitor the temperature in the US. Surfacestations.org has been tracking these weather monitoring points, getting people to go out and take pictures of them. Some of the surfaces stations used to measure the temperature across the US are in astoundingly bad locations.
And now we have Carbongate. The EPA has been trying to issue a finding that would allow them to regulate CO2 emissions on the basis that CO2 is a major cause of global warming. One small office, the National Center for Environmental Economics, has analyzed the data, and said it doesn’t support the finding the EPA wants to issue. The result? IBD reports the office opposing the finding is being closed.
In case you’re wondering, there is a list of all the things global warming is supposed to have caused. It would be pretty funny reading, if it weren’t so serious.
For those who like to follow the looming predictions of environmental disaster, the US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works has a post pointing to a statement by Al Gore that unless we do something now, the world would face disaster in ten years. Sound familiar? That’s because Al Gore is saying this sort of thing all the time. Of course, it’s a bit inconvenient that he’s on record saying this in 1989. A mere twenty years ago. The original quote can be found in a Miami Herald article.
The Foundry also points out that GM’s claim to a car that gets 230 miles to the gallon is a bit suspect. After all, even a plug in hybrid has to get electricity from someplace. It’s a bit unfair to count the electricity taken from the grid as “free” power. Finally, from Gunpowder and Whiskey, a dissertation on chicken droppings being used as fertilizer. Apparently, environmentalists want to stop this practice, as well.
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