An excercise in doublethink: Global Weirding

Is it doublethink or crimestop? The Orwellian metaphors are aplenty in this global warming propaganda column.

To that I would add that falling back on the whole thing about 'being more environmentally responsible' is crap, it implies that everyone who disagrees with AGW doesn't give a damn about anything except where the next oil field is.

I don't care about your sissy invyroments! - GW sceptic stereotype? Some truth to it I guess.

It's one thing to be 'more environmentally responsible'. Recycling is good! Using less stuff you don't need is good! As are all the new sources of energy. Fantastic. And you get to rely less on the corrupt oil monopolist thugs. Also good.

But that is not what AGW is about. We are told that cow farts and SUVs are responsible for creating 'global warming'/'climate change'/'climate chaos' and so we must be slapped across the face with big punishing taxes and ultimately population control to save us from ourselves. The oceans are acidifying, the glaciers are melting, polar bears are going to die, the globe is warming, the globe is warming!!! (Now Pay Me)

There needs to be a reconciliation between environmentalists (real ones, not Blood and Gore) and those who oppose carbon taxes. Because this $cam is designed partially to drive people back into their korporate kontrolled konsumerism, which may not be 'killing the planet', not imminently anyway, but it is a large part of what's killing Western society (the cheap plastic crap from China rears its ugly head again...can you spell 'trade deficit' and 'deindustrialisation'?).