The Montana case rested on the vaguely feel-good phrase in the Montana Constitution that requires that the state "shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations." Whoever authored that phrase was either not very bright or very devious.
The Montana case rested on the vaguely feel-good phrase in the Montana Constitution that requires that the state "shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations." Whoever authored that phrase was either not very bright or very devious.
As to the rest, the global warming crowd is bigger and better funded by orders of magnitude than any "carbon combustion complex" could even imagine. Additionally, and far more important these days, the "global warming" crowd is better connected to the politically powerful, because "global warming" is the pretext for a theoretically unlimited concentration of power. As Randolph Bourne said, "War is the health of the state", and any issue that can be presented as a "war" justifies, once again, enormous concentrations of power. Think of the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism. Facts don't matter in these passionate endeavors, only the desire to "do something".
The Montana case rested on the vaguely feel-good phrase in the Montana Constitution that requires that the state "shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations." Whoever authored that phrase was either not very bright or very devious.
As to the rest, the global warming crowd is bigger and better funded by orders of magnitude than any "carbon combustion complex" could even imagine. Additionally, and far more important these days, the "global warming" crowd is better connected to the politically powerful, because "global warming" is the pretext for a theoretically unlimited concentration of power. As Randolph Bourne said, "War is the health of the state", and any issue that can be presented as a "war" justifies, once again, enormous concentrations of power. Think of the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism. Facts don't matter in these passionate endeavors, only the desire to "do something".