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Well-said, Sally, but again; we all think that anyway. America's (and presumably Canada's) left believes otherwise: strong, restrictive, crippling measures must be taken immediately.

For example, global warming. If you listen to the leftist elite, glboal warming is going to occur on Friday at the latest. Therefore we have to radically restrict our lifestyles right now.

Kyoto, for another; it was a blatant sham designed to...well, others have taken the standard on this one brilliantly. But it was urged to be passed immediately. None of that sensible, gradual approach you prescribe.

The radical and mendacious approach by the leftist elite tends to poison the atmosphere, so to speak. These "environmentalist wackos" are using the environment as a shallow front to further the cause of socialism. Junk science, fear, hate, envy, whatever it takes. They put people into two ridiculous camps: those on the left, who have been told to feel that gasp! we're all going to die tomorrow and nobody cares! and the right, who quite reasonably question the lack of a scientific basis for any of that. Both sides agree the environment needs to be protected. One side, however, is aware of how corrupt and ulterior the agenda is of the other side. A media quite happily going along with the anti-capitalism movement doesn't help the case either. A conservative questions the veracity of a junk report; he is shouted down by the media and leftist pundits. Another makes the obvious point that there is a sizable and legitimate faction in the scientific community that believes global warming is NOT occuring; he is shouted down as a global-warming denier.

Ideally, everyone is supportive of what you said. The trick is to help the Right (which is not suicidally apathetic to the environment) defang the exploiters of the environment -- whether they be capitalists or socialists. People are generally willing to take small price increases (necessary to R&D all clean technologies), but they're not willing to let the poor take up the large price increases so inevitable with socialism. For that is the end result of the Left's brand of environmentalism; bureaucracy, control, centralization, misery.

Every time liberal American Democrats push us one step closer to cars made of cardboard*, the number of poor suffering unbearable price increases (they can afford them the least, of course)will go up, and the more people will die in unsafe cars. This is the legacy of socialism, applied to the environment: instead of elevating everyone UP, socialism "equalizes" by pushing everyone DOWN.

No one reasonable, I'm sure, wants to see that happen.




*Do a Google search for "Trabant." Then laugh and cry.