Beware of the foolish
politics of climate change
Townhall – Marita Noon – 9/15/2013
Anglosphere is now post
progressive. The English speaking nations of the world: England, New
Zealand, Canada
and now Australia
are governed by conservatives. America
stands apart from them as the sole remaining major leftist-governed power in
the Anglo world.”
While this should sound
alarms for liberals, the real panic is with the global warming alarmists.
Australia’s new Prime Minister Abbott is said to have run a “tight
campaign”—though he was “remarkably vague over his economic plans.” The
Financial Times reports:
“Abbott was much clearer on his intention to scrap a carbon tax and a levy on
miners’ profits.”
t is not just the
politicians who are “looking on in horror.” It is everyone who has bought into,
as the WSJ
calls them, “the faddish politics of climate change”—those who believe we can
power the world on rainbows, butterflies, and fairy dust are panicked. Their
entire world view is being threatened.
The Financial Times reports:
“Nine of Europe’s biggest utilities have
joined forces to warn that the EU’s energy policies are putting the continent’s
power supplies at risk.” It states: “One of the biggest problems was
overgenerous renewable energy subsidies that had pushed up costs for energy
consumers and now needed to be cut.”
“It is only gradually
becoming apparent,” writes Der Spiegel, “how
the renewable energy subsidies redistribute money from the poor to the more
affluent, like when someone living in small rental apartment subsidizes a
homeowner's roof-mounted solar panels through his electricity bill.”
In a September 5 press
release with the headline: “Administration Should Learn From Australia’s
Carbon Tax Failure Before Committing US
to Same,” Senator David Vitter (R-LA) says: “We can add Australia as an example to the growing list of failed
carbon policies that are becoming so abundant in Europe.”
It is said: “The wise man
learns from the mistakes of others, the fool has to learn from his own.” Sadly,
it appears that the US
has not learned to beware of the foolish politics of climate change.
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