"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
What I've come to realize from discussions with liberals is that "Global Warming" is just vehicle to usher in global socialism. As soon as you start talking about global warming and the fact there were several warming and cooling periods throughout history, the topic quickly moves into the fact that the US has so much and others don't. It's never really about that the ice caps will melt and flood coastal lands. Liberals seem to all garner a few talking points. So I've listen some of them with possible responses:
"People think that the US and the EU deserve more resources just because we are wealthy and powerful. It is one reason everyone hates us so much."
The US and the EU don't "deserve" more resources. We find them, drill for them, or buy them at market prices (actually above true market prices when you consider OPEC).
If Americans figure out a way to drill for oil 3000 feet below the surface, why should they be forced to hand it over to the third world? "Fairness?" What would happen then? No one would try to drill the next hole, because you wouldn't be recover your costs of drilling and technology research. What happens then? Supply of oil drops and prices rises. What happens then? People, always the poorest, go without heat. What happens then? Poor people die.
Besides, who has developed the technology to obtain those resources in the first place? The US and the EU. If it were not for the Americans and the Europeans, would the Indians, Arabs, or Chinese know how to drill miles down and recover oil, then process it so it can be used in mechanical equipment, which was also invented by
Americans and Europeans? Its the Americans and the Europeans who have driven industry, science, and technology. So why should they all of a sudden stop their industry, because some people think its unfair to the Chinese?
"The US has 5% of the world's population and consumes 25% of its resources"
People give Bush flack for imposing democracy on Iraqis who know no such concept. However, in order to make it "fair", we are to impose technology and science on tribes in Africa? What if they like their customs and traditions? Should we force them to buy and drive cars, so we can fufil our moral sense of fairness? How insensitive!
What if Japan consumes 5% of the world's fish, but only has 0.1% of the world's population. Would that be not be fair? Should they give up some fish consumption? They are consuming an unfair amount of the world's fish populations? That leads to overfishing and flipper getting caught in nets. We should then also have a "fin credits". Japan then could buy "fin credits" from a country like Chad?
"If we could just all cut back, people would have more."
"People are forced to live in abject poverty because of the wastefulness of others."
Eat your veggies because there are children starving in Africa - that argument may have worked on a 5 year old, but its not good national policy
If I use 10% less electricity in my house, and everyone else uses 10% less electricity in their house, that will mean that the power plant will burn 10% less coal. (yes most power plants are coal based.) However, that alone does not heat homes n Africa. Surplus coal in the US is not going to magically appear in Africa.
You would need to transport it, have/build the infrastructure to transport it off the ship and then transport it to its destination. Then you need a coal fired power plant and electrical distribution network in order to power Africa homes. It also takes thousands of people skilled and trained to operate and maintain the plant and
network into order safety operate all of this. All of that is billions of dollars in capital and thousands of trained people.
"The polar ice caps are melting, which in turn creates massive cloud systems that rapidly cool the earth, producing erratic weather and massive storm systems."
The earth warmed and cooled many times before the automobile. Viking grew crops in Greenland and ice covered much of North America at various times. Until these can be explained, I ignore junk science.
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