TheHobbyHobbler wrote:
Hey Sally:
Let's take your position and assume that the Earth is not warming (/climate change is either not happening or not human-driven).
Do you think that unbridled resource depletion should be allowed to continue?
The thing that gets me is that climate skepticism is often a Trojan Horse of sorts for Free Market positivism - the idea that nothing - NOTHING - should stand in the path of further industrialization, urbanization, and the forward march of the free market.
Sally, would you admit that the degradation of the natural habitat (and loss of species, rain forest, wilderness, etc. etc. etc.) poses a concern independent of the greenhouse gas implications? Should we ever temper economic imperatives with concern for the natural world?
It's hard to take the climate skeptic position seriously when it seems that underlying it all is an evangelical militaristic support of wealth creation at all costs.
That does sum up the position of many who "believe" in global warming. For those with all the ulterior anti-industry stances above, the global warming platform is a great vehicle to stuff them into. Even if you don't believe that CO2 is the primary driver of the Earth's warming and cooling periods, you can still get what you're really after under the guise of saving us from CO2. Plus it impresses your neighbors.
Not let's get back on topic and get away from all this global warming nonsense.