confused about carbon trading and the climate security act?

me too.

seems like a good thing that american "leaders" have recognized that there is a problem, however disgusting it is that they are looking for "urgent" solutions (as if global warming is a new problem).

check out this debate on democracynow.org.

i don't want to taint your listening pleasure before you listen to it, so if you want to listen to it without my opinion, stop reading, listen, and come back. i'll wait. ok, go.

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(i'm going to get a ton of google hits for publishing the words "ok, go.")

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i hope you've listened to the clip, here's what i have to say:
i had no idea what to think before i listened, but what made a huge impression on me was that woman who debated for the legislation at hand sounded like she was reading from an advertisment and also made several analogies that didn't make any sense, and used comletely vague "facts." the woman who debated against the legislation seemed not only literate, but stated specific events and laws, and came off sounding way more credible. it's amazing how delivery in a debate like that can sway a person who is on the fence about an issue.

it should also be said, so that i don't come off as a complete nit-wit, is that, as it turns out, i happen to agree more with the literate woman than the trained monkey woman. i believe that it's a waste of our time and taxpayer money to pass legislation with such obvious loopholes. i also believe that corporations should be held accountable in every way for the contamination that they produce and should be heavily regulated and fined for not playing by the rules, not be given tools by which to bully smaller countries and businesses. permission or not, rich or poor, they're screwing us all just the same. after all, we're ALL living under the same roof.

also, it's got me thinking about how completely disturbing it is that these things have become normalized commodities:
land
clean water (sold back to us by the very corporations who pollute it in the first place)
health care
information
peoples' lives
and now, air.

if you haven't read aldous huxley's "brave new world," do so now. having just realized that it was written in 1932 creeps me out even more.