So is environmentalism about saving the planet, or about controlling your life and taking away your liberty? Perhaps a clue is in the Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade legislation. As Inverstors' Business Daily points out in an unsigned editorial:
[T]he Kerry-Boxer bill requires the declaration of a "climate emergency" if the concentration of carbon dioxide and other declared greenhouse gases in the atmosphere exceeds 450 parts per million (ppm) . . .
The Senate version includes a section that gives the president authority, under this declared "climate emergency," to "direct all Federal agencies to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions ... to address shortfalls" in achieving greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions.
What the "appropriate actions" might be are not defined and presumably left up to the discretion of the White House.
This is nothing short of an environmental dictatorship. Green fascism. An extra-constitutional attempt to turn this country into a command-and-control economy.
Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Chris Horner says "this agenda transparently is not about GHG concentrations, or the climate. It's about what the provision would bring: almost limitless power over private economic activity and individual liberty for the activist president and, for the reluctant leader, litigious greens and courts" packed by liberal Democrat appointees.
Then the green meanies can run this country by fiat rather than democratic action. It would truly be a carbon dictatorship. And don't let them tell you it's to save the planet. It's all about power over your and your life and your finances.
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