In the old days of the catholic church, after one confessed to a sin, it was possible to purchase an indulgence from the church which would aid in relieving your guilty conscience. Let’s fast forward to today and focus on the church of environmentalism. When one sins against the environment by driving to work, turning on the air-conditioning or exhaling, no need to worry, because they’ve got indulgences for that too.

Carbon credits they’re called, and they’re not cheap. $8 will excuse you from the sin of owning a pet cat. $23 will buy you forgiveness for flying cross country. And $10 will grant you a pardon from the digusting environmental effects of your own respiratory system.

On the Foxnews show Hannity’s America, Sean did an expose on the “learjet liberals”, left wingers who preach carbon nuetrality as scripture but who fly around in private jets that burn more in one flight than any normal person could burn in a year driving their personal automobile. Naturally, being fair and balanced means you have to bring on some liberal apologists and let them make their…points. When he posed the question, “Does that make them hypocritical?” the answer was a resounding “No way!” It’s not hyporcitical, they say, because people like Al Gore, while admittedly horrible polluters themselves, make up for it by purchasing indulgences…er, carbon credits to offset their pollution. The message I take from this is that it’s OK to pollute as much as you want, provided you’re a multi-millionaire who can afford to shell out for redemption. The rest of us peasants will just have to suck it up and walk to work and we damned well better like it because we can’t afford the carbon credits.

Let’s get one thing straight, carbon credits, and the global warming scare tactics in general have nothing to do with the environment. They are merely another tool at the socialists’ disposal for use in dismantling western capitalism (especially in the United States). The cover story is that the goal of carbon credits is to manufacture a tangible cost of doing buisiness for industries that pollute. This, they say, will move pollution from the realm of being an unquantifiable externality, directly onto business financial spreadsheets.

The real purpose as I see it is the same purpose as everything socialists try to do: take money away from the productive and give it to the non-productive. Productive societies generate more pollution (we also do more to mitigate it, but that’s beside the point). Non-productive societies generate less. Given our current technology and utilization of resources, this dichotomy is universal and inescapable. This may change in the future. But as it is today, the only way for industries to become less carbon polluting is to produce fewer goods and services. Period. You can’t create cement concrete with windmills. You can’t smelter steel with solar power. You can’t make plastics, asphalt or many other things without the byproducts gained from refining petroleum.

The socialist puppetmasters of the international community get together and arbitrarily select an amount of pollution that is acceptable, and use this figure to place upper limits on the amount of pollution that developed countries may produce, i.e. the Kyoto accords. All other nations, including developing nations, are pretty well excluded from these constraints. Nations which work to reduce their carbon emissions below their required levels (by becoming less productive) are rewarded with carbon credits which they can then sell to other nations which produce more. Periodically, the upper limit for pollution will be lowered, providing further incentive for reduced productivity and levying an even more ponderous taxation upon the productive. If you extrapolate this model out to its logical conclusion, what you end up with is a world without pollution, because all the productive economies have been destroyed and their wealth redistributed to the non-producing societies. In this world, devoid of property rights and free enterprise, everyone is dependant upon the state for survival. Make no mistake, this is the real goal.

The church of environmentalism is giving Islam a run for its money in terms of being the most sinister ideological threat to civilization as we know it.

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