![laliberty:
I neither tagged any of those posts as “politics” nor promoted them to the explore directory. Someone else must have thought them worth promoting.
Still, let’s ignore the giant, glowing 11,000ºF orb in the sky that regularly gurgles plasma and instead focus on how the side effects of man’s great progress of the last 200 years is somehow too much for this 4.54 billion year old rock with a history of climatological fluctuations to handle.
If you want to believe anthropogenic climate change exists - as I once did - then by all means, believe. But (1) do not overstate its negative effects in relation to the good that has been made by virtue of our industrialization and (2) do not force your beliefs on me through shrouded Marxist redistributive policies or neo-Malthusian nudges of population control.
Further, if you were serious about conservation, you’d consider the free market alternative. Central planning and interference only lead to wasted resources. As I have previously explained, private property and free exchange best protects all property by setting prices based on supply (scarcity) and demand instead of a central planner’s whim. After all, “[h]ow could people in a planned economy ever conserve if they have no prices to signal when resources are being wasted?”
This sums up my own views pretty darn well.
One more thing: CO2 is .035% of the atmosphere. To the extent we have to worry about the atmosphere at all, which is hardly a proven idea in the first place, it strains the credibility of the “science” to obsess over .035% of the atmosphere and never worry about the other 99.965%. I mean, come on. Game over.
People can believe whatever they like. What they can’t do is force others to buy into it.
To those people, I have to say: some of us can see through this house of cards, and don’t like being marginalized socially, and don’t like the idea of a reduced standard of living from forced taxation that will slow down the entire economy.
Does that make us crazy? Or you?](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk3nujVFa81qbwappo1_500.jpg)
I neither tagged any of those posts as “politics” nor promoted them to the explore directory. Someone else must have thought them worth promoting.
Still, let’s ignore the giant, glowing 11,000ºF orb in the sky that regularly gurgles plasma and instead focus on how the side effects of man’s great progress of the last 200 years is somehow too much for this 4.54 billion year old rock with a history of climatological fluctuations to handle.
If you want to believe anthropogenic climate change exists - as I once did - then by all means, believe. But (1) do not overstate its negative effects in relation to the good that has been made by virtue of our industrialization and (2) do not force your beliefs on me through shrouded Marxist redistributive policies or neo-Malthusian nudges of population control.
Further, if you were serious about conservation, you’d consider the free market alternative. Central planning and interference only lead to wasted resources. As I have previously explained, private property and free exchange best protects all property by setting prices based on supply (scarcity) and demand instead of a central planner’s whim. After all, “[h]ow could people in a planned economy ever conserve if they have no prices to signal when resources are being wasted?”
This sums up my own views pretty darn well.
One more thing: CO2 is .035% of the atmosphere. To the extent we have to worry about the atmosphere at all, which is hardly a proven idea in the first place, it strains the credibility of the “science” to obsess over .035% of the atmosphere and never worry about the other 99.965%. I mean, come on. Game over.
People can believe whatever they like. What they can’t do is force others to buy into it.
To those people, I have to say: some of us can see through this house of cards, and don’t like being marginalized socially, and don’t like the idea of a reduced standard of living from forced taxation that will slow down the entire economy.
Does that make us crazy? Or you?
(via evilteabagger)
