Julia (the pasty Welsh girl) says that Australians need to be punished because their per capita CO2 emissions are high. (Unlike Mexico, which has the highest per capita methane emissions – due to Pinto Beans.)
The fact that Australia’s total CO2 emissions are relatively about the size of a gnat on a hair on an elephant’s ass – isn’t important. It also isn’t important that her tax will have no effect on the climate. What is important is that per capita emitters are duly punished.
So I made a list of top per capita emitters of CO2.
- Al Gore
- Richard Branson
- Prince Charles
- James Cameron
- Barack Obama – who flew to Colorado to see the damage that CO2 caused.
James Cameron… The douche that hasn’t made an entertaining movie in 20 years.
You forgot to include thos sick actors that are jetting all around and promoting global warming and obama. That would include pitt , clooney , jolie and a whole host of other perverts and wackjobs.
Of course most of those whackjobs and Bishops of the Church of GW. Like Al Gore. Think their phony carbon credits offset their carbon indulgences. So they can party and jetset without sinning to Gaia… Hypocrites the lot of them.
I think, Steven, you’ve hit the nail close to the head, as far as what is taken as a humorous S&M reference. But, seriously, it has been credibly argued that many of the econuts are driven by secular guilt, and this guilt drives them to seek self-retributions and societal retributions for the “excesses” of consumption that cause the guilt; these feelings, as manifested in a drive to stringently curtail the essence of what makes humans productive, could be considered akin to feelings that drove the medieval penitents to wear painful Hair Shirts.
Relevant Quotes:
“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster… to bomb us into the stone age, where we might live like Indians… guilt free at last.” -Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue
“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty…” -Maurice King, University of Leeds
“The planet is about to break out with fever.. we [humans] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.” -Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian
“It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.” -George Monbiot, UK Ecojournalist
“Discipline, prohibition, enforcement and oppression are the only solution [for AGW].. Those most responsible for .. economic growth.. will be sent to the mountains for re-education in eco-gulags.” -Pentti Linkola, Finnish Ecologist
“Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization.” -Al Gore
“The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization…” -Reid Bryson, Atmospheric Scientist, 1971
“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.” -Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day 1970
“Chief executives of large fossil fuel companies [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature.” -James Hansen, NASA
One of the real irritating things about this Australian carbon tax is that a lot of the money will be used to buy billions of dollars of carbon credits from London. Bernie Maddoff would be jealous he didn’t set up a scheme like this. It is a very sad joke on gullible people.
Australia’s carbon tax will have no impact whatsoever on global CO2 levels or temperatures. (By the way, there is no empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that man-made CO2 — a minuscule atmospheric component that makes up 0.117 percent of the so-called greenhouse effect — has caused global temperatures to rise.)
The tax is is just another scam by the Aussie government to rob the middle class blind (in the form of higher energy costs and consumer prices) — all under the cover of “protecting the environment.” The tax will do irreparable harm to many of Australia’s industries, reducing their competitiveness in the world marketplace and forcing some companies to relocate to more tax-favorable countries.
The American people are not much better off. We have appathetically allowed our freedoms to be eroded to the point that our constitution is in tatters. To have five idiots on the US supreme court rule that it is legal to be forced to buy a product is unbelieveable. If this does not galvanize the people to civil disobedience then I think all is probably lost. But then I don’t think some people want freedom because they are neutered cowards. So many arrogant people today that when faced with adversity they just run away. It seems there is little important enough to cause them to want to stand and fight. It seems that only those with little , by comparison , finances seem to be willing to stand for anything. And they are overwhelmed by their crushing financial burdens in careing for their families so they can not afford to fight without causing hardship to those they love. Yes , we’ve come a long way from our forefathers and some of the ways are bad.