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LadyEllen -> RE: Copenhagen - climate change as religion, and the US Constitution... (12/2/2009 3:30:10 PM)
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I must confess, I'm disappointed, or it could be delighted, that the anti crowd did not rush to support the proposition in the OP that climate change legislation would be unconstitutional given the oft recited stance of the anti crowd that climate change is religious in nature. Although it must be said, the raising in the OP of other current legislation as probably equally suspect in that context might well have affected things, regardless of all other factors.
From the responses received, it must be seen that even the most vehement of the anti crowd do not actually regard climate change as religious in nature, for if they did so regard it then one might have expected to have seen support for that view, despite how often, perhaps as a tool of debate, the accusation is laid.
Additionally, perhaps also alternatively, we may deduce that the Constitution, however much it is also used, and used too often, as a tool of debate, is not actually regarded as being strictly defined but rather of a flexible nature that may be bent to support a particular agenda as needs must. This of course is a good thing in many ways, for time marches on regardless and the needs of the hour change with each of its paces. On the other hand, it indicates that arguments advanced on the basis of it must be regarded with some skepticism wherever one sits on the political spectrum.
That there is skepticism as to climate change is undoubted - and healthy. That there is cynicism is regrettable, and most unhealthy. I am not convinced either way on the matter, but I do believe its best to take what pre-emptive action we might on a just in case basis, for to get it wrong will only be an utter disaster if one of the two possible outcomes is proven correct. And that such pre-emptive action might just generate wealth, provide a better world for our descendants and wean us from the carbon based fuels teat of vicious and tyrannical regimes and make us independent of their influences tips the balance for me - but then it is in these latter that the cynicism has grown.
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