Climate change

So the government ministers are wanting climate change to influence the budget. The treasury are being asked to combat global warming. Er, how exactly will a bunch of accountants persuade Mother Nature from taking her natural course? When are they going to get it into their thick heads that global warming is a natural process? The globe has been warming up since the last ice age.

Or maybe they already know this. But by using the environmental trump card they can introduce taxes, in the name of saving the planet you understand, by piling the guilt on the population about greenhouse gas emissions. I wonder just what percentage of greenhouse gases humans actually produce. Or maybe they're going to tax farmers depending on how much their cows fart. Methane is a greenhouse gas too.

Environmental taxes have nothing whatsoever to do with the environment. They have everything to do with collecting revenues. Environmental issues are contructed purely to trigger the guilt in the population.

Flooding is not caused by rainfall but by piss poor urban planning. The redevelopment of natural flood plains for housing has meant that rivers have nowhere to take the swell during wetter periods, so they end up bursting their banks causing flooding in towns and cities. Flooding has been caused by the greed of the building corporations, not some granny burning coal to keep warm.

Greenhouse gases would be emitted whether we are here or not. Animals produce carbon dioxide and methane in vast quantities. Our atmosphere is 20% oxygen, a gas that supports combustion. There are forests made from carbon. When carbon reacts with oxygen it produces carbon dioxide. All it needs is an ignition source. Like lightning. How much greenhouse gas would a forest fire cause? Perhaps the gods need to be taxed on their use of lightning.

Any government minister who claims to care for the welfare of the planet and its environment is really formulating a plan to either extract more taxes or enforce more control over the population. Or probably both.