Friday, September 25, 2009

Environmental Harassment Suit in the News


I was prying my eyelids open, sitting at my computer this morning with my bowl of oatmeal as the headlines rolled off the monitor. The Houston Chronicle highlighted one of its favorite targets, the environment and how mankind has destroyed the planet with every carbon footprint it has taken while escaping the cave. My one handed applause goes to Victor Flatt with his article, New Pressure to Pass Climate Legislation .

“That tremble you felt yesterday was the world digesting the 2nd Circuit's decision in Connecticut et al. v. American Electric Power Council. After sitting on the case for 4 years, the court finally held that Connecticut and 8 other states could proceed to sue the 25 largest coal fired power generators in the country for damages resulting from their contribution to global warming/climate change.”

I looked up the case referenced and found the political machine of the environmentalist movement hip deep in manufactured sewage as they attempt to shut down what was once the most efficient and productive industrial nation in the world through harassment in the courts. An article written by Chad Bray and Cassandra Sweet in The Australian explained the rational of the original court dismissal of the cases.

“US District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan dismissed the cases in 2005, saying the question of whether carbon-dioxide emissions should be reduced laid with Congress, not the courts.”

The hoax being perpetrated on everyone, to persuade empty minded humans that they are destroying the planet through breathing in and out, consuming natural resources in order to improve the quality of life and any other unpardonable insult to the lords of the Great Algorian Church of Environmentalism; may I grovel to obtain forgiveness, Global Warming and Climate Change being a well known fact among the enlightened. We should all go back to our caves and suffer a marginally satisfying existence until such time as we are covered with composted soil. I’m restrained from using my formerly well used and socially unacceptable crude language skills; how unfortunate since it flowed like poetry from my lips and covered these miscreants much better.

“Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said: "This ruling restoring our legal action breathes new life into our fight against greenhouse gas polluters and changes the legal landscape to impose responsibility where it belongs.”

‘"Our legal fight is against power companies that emit a huge share of our nation's CO2 contamination, but it will set a precedent for all who threaten our planet with such pernicious pollution."’

Here’s one solution, stop selling electricity to folks who don’t want anyone to use it. If these folks are serious then they shouldn’t be contributing to the problem which they claim is destroying the planet.
“You guys should go sue yourselves”, very close to something I would have said many years ago before gaining some social graces; not as crisp as it lands on the ear, close enough.

Never mind that most of the so called scientific facts which have been used to create the necessary hysteria associated with Man Made Global Warming/Climate Change have as much to do with science as the Flat Earthers have with reality.
The sea levels will rise and flood the major cities of the world all because T. F. Stern leaves his computer up and running all night long instead of giving it a rest. T. F. Stern also uses soft two ply toilet paper, stands for long periods of time in front of the refrigerator with the door open looking for the perfect snack, enjoys reading by the light of an incandescent light bulb rather than a pale yellow tinged “green minded” upgrade that will require sealing off my house as a contamination area should one of them ever fall to the floor releasing mercury vapors to escape, and my work truck consumes enough fuel to support a village of twenty in Mongolia for twelve years; so sue me!

“For the good of all humans we have decided that…fill in the blank…is not good for you.” When I hear a sentence like that I know to put on my brown shoes and stay outside the house so as not to track any of that stuff inside.

The problem with having Utopian minded folks, for that is what they have as a singularly acceptable goal, nothing short of Utopia will do. These high minded folks would throw away all that has been accomplished and is being accomplished because it falls short of perfection, is less than totally efficient or has some flaw which diminishes the unreachable Utopian’s stated goal.

The environmentalist movement reminds me of Star Trek: The Motion Picture where the damaged Voyager probe comes back, considerably altered in both form and purpose, seeking out its creator; all the while destroying every imperfect carbon based forms it comes in contact with as a means of purifying the universe.

So it is across the world with the G-20 summit plotting to save the world by doing away with the means of productivity, damn the consequences, “We must affect Change!”. Never mind that the models for such change are based on less than scientific data, often times fraudulent as has been shown far too many times, “We must affect Change! Imperfect human beings must stop enjoying this planet which is under our stewardship!”

All these “do gooder” environmental groups want to exact their pound of flesh from the dirty old coal burning electricity suppliers; fine, then let’s back that up with something a little less hypocritical. They should vacate their fancy air conditioned offices, stop using electricity all together for that matter. Then they need to walk to the court house instead of employing the use of internal combustion engines which also destroy the planet. They’ll have to learn how to fly without those big airplanes which destroy lots of fossil fuel too.

Why don’t we stop breathing every other breath; think how much carbon dioxide we could keep from destroying the planet. With a little more effort we could cut that in half again and then after considerable self discipline we might even make it to where one breath of air could last several minutes.

There is a group of folks who have figured out a way to make it so humans never take even one gulp of precious air, never exhale any carbon dioxide and keep them from polluting the planet completely. If the new Health Care legislation is passed your tax dollars will be spent to help unwanted pregnancies end in abortions; just think of it as part of the ecology movement, rather than preventing a human life we’ll be saving the planet.

The Utopians/Environmentalists have abused our courts through harassment suits, suits which are filed as a means to defeat the industrialization of our planet, to keep everyone safe from carbon dioxide, to reduce productivity levels. They seek to turn back the calendar to a time when the only available power was provided by a swiftly running stream nearby or some stupid animal tethered to mechanically driven device, forever to walk in circles without hope or change of scenery. We are to become slaves of our environment rather than masters over it; no thanks, that’s not very progressive.

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