Global Warming Thoughtcrimes
Interesting article over on Reason.com: Does Climate Change Skepticism Merit Jail?
David Suzuki, environmental and a former leader of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, wants to put people in jail for denying global warming.
“Think like me or you go to jail.”
You know, some days I’m glad I’m conservative and other days, I’m really glad.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Dude, you are misrepresenting it. He wasn’t talking about having anyone who disagrees with him jailed. He was talking about political leaders jailed for a failure to address the issue, because they are essentially committing a fraud against subsequent generations (think of it as akin for failing to call the national guard while an invader attacked your country). If anything, milder than claims [of treason](http://www.amazon.com/Treason-Liberal-Treachery-Cold-Terrorism/dp/1400050324/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202457587&sr=8-1) that get bandied about like it is nothing, and more importantly, he wasn’t serious. He was merely trying to get people to pay attention to what he’s saying (which appears to be working).
February 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Imagine for a second it was abortion instead of global warming, and Pat Buchanan was calling for legislation to send political officials to jail for failing to take action & making abortion illegal.
Even in *dire* cases, we need to let people disagree — especially members of our government. We can’t place legal threats over their heads if think a certain way.
February 12th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Imagine for a second that this took place in the seventies when global cooling was all the rage. Should leaders have been jailed for not enacting policies to warm the planet up?
Perhaps we should leave science to the scientists, and politics to the politicians.
And keep authoritarian/totalitarianism under the guise of happy socialism where it should be, the dustbin of history. (Someone please let Obama know…)
February 12th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Solving global warming is a lost cause.
The economy will continue to spit out as much carbon as it can until there’s some big reason (other than a simple desire not to) to stop it.