Don't get me started!

The below is copied from an email this morning - my reply is at the top.  My co-worker was honestly curious and unsuspecting of my soapbox tendencies, but he told me later he really liked hearing my opinion.  Poor guy.

So just as a disclaimer, this is totally just my personal opinion based on what I've read, and also based on some good ol' common sense too.  Don't hate me.

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“Global warming” and anything related to carbon dioxide is so incredibly controversial!  I don’t even bring it up in conversations anymore, and honestly, I was kind of annoyed to see it splashed all over our HD booth.  My personal opinion?  Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that’s a scientific fact.  However I believe (along with countless scientists outside the UN’s reach) that climate change would occur naturally regardless of human prevention methods.  However everything that is proposed to “stop” climate change is something that should happen anyway for other, better reasons (such as renewable energy and alternative fuel vehicles = less dependence on oil/coal and less pollution).  The only way that action by the EPA and the environmental movement will have a negative impact on the economy is if big business keeps stonewalling and refusing to change the dirty, inefficient, ecologically-damaging ways that they operate.  In which case, I kind of think they deserve to collapse in a heap (a la GM).  It sometimes sucks for the everyday man, but we have to change how we live if we want future generations to have a better quality of life than we have.  Stuff like this only cares about financial prosperity, not true quality of life prosperity.

I’ll get off my soapbox now!  :-)


On 6/12/09 11:10 AM, "xxxxxxxxxxxx"  wrote:

Know anything about this? Thoughts?


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From: xxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:57:31 -0400
To: xxxxxxxx
Subject: [Fwd: Take Action: Stop EPA Overreach]

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 Subject:  Take Action: Stop EPA Overreach  
 Date:  Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:57:47 -0400 (EDT)  
 From:  Americans for Prosperity <info@afphq.org> <mailto:info@afphq.org>   
 Reply-To:  Americans for Prosperity <info@afphq.org> <mailto:info@afphq.org>   
 To:  xxxxxxxx

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