Small niggle on behalf of politicians everywhere: they didn't create the fossil fuels for us, and for the most part they didn't encourage us to use them...
Come off it Kitty! The POLITICIANS (alone!!) caused us to invade Africa and RAPE its natural resources. Of course they encouraged us. If mankind is responsible for global warming (which I do not actually believe) it's definitely the politicians who must take the blame. Every single 1p tax on petrol (for example) is just another way of telling us that petrol is an "important" source of revenue (and don't, please, be hoodwinked by the hypocrisy that is intended to suggest that such taxes are somehow "green").
If any blame should be apportioned it should be to the scientists who (in their well-meaning way) identified the possibilities of fossil fuels and the industrialists who seized the opportunity to encourage us to abandon the work involved in keeping horses and carriages (to say nothing of the horse pollution ensuing) in favour of
nice, clean gasoline engines.
I couldn't disagree more! The scientists and the industrialists merely did their job (fully encouraged by the politicians) in harnessing the natural resources for us to use. When did the politicians ever tell them to stop because their work might "create global warming" - they should have done (apparently!) because it is THEIR job to plan for such things (and they didn't!).
Of course, the politicians have also been lobbied by the industrialists to give their interests serious consideration when it comes to election time.
Have they? When did this happen (and how)?
NO! The entire MYTH of a supposed "man-made global warming" is only a way invented by politicians of telling us that we have all been naughty, and in using all the resources THEY have planned for us to use in the way we have been using them we are being told that it is now all OUR fault and we must pay for it. No convincing evidence has yet been given to prove that "man" is in any meaningful way responsible for climate changes that have been happening over only a very short space of time. And the trick is this: by merely asserting that it in fact IS our fault, we are somehow flattered by them (against all reason) through the assumption that we are, indeed, big and powerful enough as humans to have actually done it! We are - presumably - expected to take this as some kind of credible compliment. No thank you.
Baz
