This definitely qualifies as propaganda for big corporations! For extra wholesome fun, check out the links on the sides of the article, where you can read papers about how the U.S. isn't being isolationist and how the Earth is just fine! There is global warming. It has been going on now for anywhere from 14,000 to 10,000 years since the last Ice Age. There was a slight period of warming between 1850 and 1950 and, since then, there has been NO warming in terms of any dramatic rise in temperature worldwide. Indeed, the meteorological satellites have found, if anything, a slight cooling. Ah, that explains the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. Maybe even explains why the Arctic Ice Shelf is breaking away. Er, wait, no it doesn't. What can Tony Blair possibly mean when he talks about "protecting our environment", let alone the rubbish about "the devastating impacts of climate change"? We cannot protect the environment except to insure against the obvious problems of keeping rivers clean of industrial wastes or intelligently managing forests. We can require, too, that industry does not befoul the air, but in fact we have already done that. In America and Great Britain, levels of this kind of man-made pollution have been dramatically reduced since the 1970s. Aha! So it was pollution in the 70s that was keeping my allergies in check! No wonder I need to take so many anti-histamines, it's because the pollutants aren't there to help me! No amount of statesmanship will ever create "a global community" so long as a particular religion (Islam) or economic theory (Communism) requires large groups of people to devote themselves to the enslavement of other large groups of people. Nations do not have "friends." Nations have "interests" which they pursue, often to the detriment of their neighbors and others. I don't know if I can even touch that one with a 10 foot stick. And, afterward, Iraqis will dance in the streets and throw flowers at their liberators. Are we talking about the Iraqis that still live in Iraq, or the ones who moved to Tennessee several years ago? National Anxiety Center - Warning Signs! |