Comment Re:Don't let politicians control the discussion th (Score 1) 725
I'm afraid the UN, Kyoto, the laws, the regulations, the taxes, etc are not ignorable.
The AGW people gave those things justification and therefore linked themselves to them.
As such the whole thing has to be fought as a single entity.
As I said, if you were pushing a Eugenics program, we'd be trying to discredit DNA, genetics, and evolution if only because it would make justifying a eugenics program more difficult.
By pushing for a massive nationalization of global industry, massively increasing taxes, attempting to put unelected international bodies in charge of domestic energy policy, and various other things you've created a situation where we cannot afford to have AGW be secure. It has to be undermined and discredited until such time as the "solutions" to the problem become more reasonable or the people running the whole thing are not merely our political enemies empowered to do whatever they please with no limits.
It cannot be borne.
If you want cooperation on the issue you have to take the weapon away from the socialists. They've gone power mad with it. They see the whole issue as a blank check to settle scores, punish enemies, reward friends, and do other slimy things. Its not acceptable that they do that. And they have ONLY been slowed down by denying AGW itself. We couldn't do it any other way.
We tried. We tried arguing the merits of these systems. We tried getting things to work in a bipartisan fashion.
We tried lots of stuff. We were bypassed, shut out, shouted down, sidelined...
And so we had no choice. So we went to DEFCON 1 and nuked AGW itself.
I'm sorry but we had no choice. Back off the above issues and give us an EQUAL seat at the table. Until that happens AGW will remain under just enough of an attack to keep it neutralized as a weapon against us.
Keep in mind... we are half of your society. You cannot just do whatever you please indifferent to our wishes. We live with you. We're all around you. To the left to the right in front of you behind you. We're right here.
And so are you. Cut a deal or you're challenging us to an arm wrestling contest.