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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
Labeling climate change as a "left wing fad", makes me believe the right wing propoganda machine is working. Does anyone care to review history and understand how badly this country's rivers and lakes were polluted in the the nineteenth and early twentieth century? The industrialists and their political pawns maintained it was no problem and fought against any regulation,which was eventually overcome thankfully, and our waters have largely recovered. The same goes for air pollution, and asbestos and any number of pesky problems that corporations fought because they didn't want to have to spend any money to fix them, despite the human cost. Yes they too were left-wing fads I suppose.
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I'm afraid you totally missed the point of my post. I am not talking about bonafide ecological issues, clean water and such. No one that I know is opposed to that. I would also disagree that corporations are inherently the bad guys as you seem to imply. State it more clearly if I have misconstrued what you said.
What I am saying is there is a certain faddishness, largely on the left, to "climate change" ... it was originally global cooling years ago, then global warming and now climate change. That word seems to sell better. Do you deny that "fixing" climate change will require a much more intrusive government intervention? Do you deny that there is a huge political agenda that goes with it?
I also note that the latest technique is to dismiss all counter arguments by saying climate change is now settled science. It is not.
The hypocrisy also is bothersome. The leading proponents (well know politicians) of this movement tend to live in huge mansions, burn electricity by the bundle, fly around the world in private jets, make gazillions off the credulous, and then lecture the common man/woman about how they should cut back. It's beyond a joke ... it's a racket.