The corporate welfare and subsidies for ethanol production in the United States is probably a crime against taxpayers, but it’s hardly a crime against humanity.
Perhaps now the Register and others will begin to recognize that the United Nations is an organization of politicians - not scientists, not global environmental prophets, not even lobbyists for the Iowa Farm Bureau.Every UN diplomat and official has his own country’s self-interest, agenda, and product to sell to the rest of us.
So the next time someone from the UN, or the Vatican, or even a Hollywood Academy Award winner tells you that climate change is somehow a crime against the planet caused by human existence, think about it. If he tells you it’s the end of civilization as we know it, we can’t possibly adapt, we should be riddled with guilt and start purchasing carbon offsets, think about his motive and what he is really selling.
Sometimes it’s snake oil.
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Of course the UN is filled with politicians - with divergent agendas, goals, strategies and needs. It also employs thousands of scientists, engineers, relief workers, mercenaries, administrators, and weapons-inspectors. Some great, some awful.
It has not turned out to be the compliant lackey that the US has wished for. So it gets vilified - and apparently you have taken the bait.
Woodrow Wilson, and then Harry Truman tried to create some type of organization to allow countries to negotiate their differences without resorting to war. And to focusing the power of the collective will of the planet to address armed conflicts, poverty, malnutrition, disease, education and other issues challenging our planet.
Perfect? Hell no? But aside from criticism, whats your solution?
And Rights Boy must have a secret source of information about global warming that eludes the UN, the EU, the UCS, the US DoD and DE, almost all sane scientists, and even President Bush nowadays.
69 degrees in your hometown yesterday... and RB doesn't think that the burning of:
- 84.2 million of barrels of oil,
- 6.2 billion cm of natural gas,
- 4.71 million tons of coal/OE
PER DAY could be contributing to that in any way? Maybe just a little?
http://www.bp.com/productlanding.do?categoryId=6848&contentId=7033471
http://www.nef1.org/ea/eastats.html
Yes, anonymous, humans may be contributing a little bit. But there is very little humanity can do to reverse what is largely a natural cycle that has gone on for millions of years. Even if humanity did a massive global suicide, which is the logical conclusion of eco-morality, it still wouldn't stop the earth from warming.
BTW, Rights Boys LOVES climate change. His power bills are down and the fishing season is much longer.
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