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Global Warming – The New Religion
Some alternative environmental opinions and thoughts you won’t find in the mainstream press, by Yr. Ed.

Total Assurance

I was indirectly involved in the first steps of educating our youth about the importance of being conscientious environmentalists. Also known as grade school brainwa… cultural indoctrination.
In the late 1970s my tune-up shop was open all day on Saturdays. My half of the building faced Livingston Avenue, a main southern route into North and New Brunswick, NJ. The other end of the building faced Rt. 1. A half mile up Livingston Ave., Coca-Cola had a bottling plant. Arriving at work one cold Saturday morning I was surprised to find a stream of cars backed up in front of my property all the way from the Rt. 1 exit to the Coke plant. Children and their parents were sitting in the idling cars, I learned, waiting to deliver their aluminum cans to be recycled, as part of school programs. Access to my building was impeded during the morning. By the next week I had orange cones at the street, bearing “Please do not block the driveway” signs. They did not work. Customers still had trouble entering my property.
Times have changed greatly. Today no one would think a hundred cars idling in line to have the kiddies recycle a bag of aluminum cans was effective conservation. Even if the kiddies were getting ‘credits’ at school. What has not changed is the total assurance and moral superiority of the environment vanguard. When I politely asked the frustrated Dad’s to squeeze over so my customers could enter, I was usually met with anger and a lecture on their higher purpose. Good manners were never a major part of the ‘greater NY Metro area’, but the self-assurance of enviro-nazis remains universal. Silly ideas or not.

Let’s blame the cars

“You’re mad because there are too many cars on the roads?”
“Yeah! Especially SUVs! I hate SUVs! Seeing them driving around using up our resources really ticks me off!
“So you figure those lousy immoral cars spend their evenings in bars and get plastered? Then maybe they are out in the parking lots to buy and use drugs, huh? Then they DO IT! Not a responsible thought in their empty heads and then there are even more cars around. I get it - they are breeding like rabbits, driving around empty and using up our vital natural resources.”
“Very funny, but don’t you think the world should be preserved for my grandchildren?”

Close Disney World

Jamie Kitman was opining in ‘Automobile’ magazine on the cars vs. airplanes disparity of air pollution. He made a bold proposal I wish I’d thought of myself. Enviro-nazis are selectively narrow-sighted in pushing their various agendas… SUVs are so politically incorrect. But that’s so small-minded; let’s think big! Consider the tons of pollution dumped into the air every week by airplanes headed to Orlando. Now add all the cars headed there on family vacations. It’s difficult to think any single act that would do more environmental good then closing the place. He suggested the government pay a fair market value, plow it under and allow the land to return to environmentally desirable swampland. Sound extreme? Kitman may have been kidding, but read on.

Have your carbon card ready!

A British parliamentary committee (I am not making this up) proposed that all citizens be issued a ‘carbon footprint’ card. When purchasing petrol, or buying a train or airplane ticket, heating fuel for their homes or paying their electric bills, for instance, the ‘carbon card’ would have to be presented. That way the State could track their personal carbon usage. This sounds like another draconian UK plan of recent years that led to State oppression.

Pro-automobile editorials offered to provoke thought and are unlikely to represent the beliefs of our members. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t think about it. Written rebuttals welcomed.