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Listed below are comments made by ig1234 between Tuesday, 27th May 2008 and Saturday, 3rd January 2009.

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Five to watch in 2009 1:36pm on 03 Jan 2009 "Stories generated from environmentalist corporations will be cut/pasted and quoted as indisputable fact in no need of analysis, criticism or any reasoned response and the proposed remedies (mainly involving crashing the Western economies under a new blizzard of eco-taxes and heavyhanded bureaucracy) treated as if they were carved into stone on Mount Sinai."

The first line of the paragraph means anyone can ignore the rest of what BritinAussie says. What the heck is an 'environmentalist corporation'?

And then predictably, 'oh no' taxes and regulation. God forbid.
The great British liberties by-election? 12:48pm on 09 Jul 2008 There is only one real candidate on civil liberties here, and that's Shan Oakes (with respect to one or two of the independents).

42 days is arbitrary, just as 28 days is. Why support one and not the other?

David Davis should be commended for giving this issue more attention, but he's in no way qualified to defend our civil liberties. He's in for a run for his money with the Greens. Most of the independents appear to be jokes, and most of the other parties are very sick ones, such as the NF.
Did Mary Whitehouse have a point? 1:21pm on 28 May 2008 They may play a small part but as part of something wider.

That wider issue being free market, neoliberal capitalism and individualisation. The latter being quite good alone, but in this case has pushed people to be as independent existing as possible from others and society, or as a family unit. Meaning that people are in competition with eachother for resources, jobs, services, houses, whatever. Society quietly breaks down as number 1 is infinitesimally more important than anything else. This obviously allows people to grow up alienated and removed, which is reinforced by media (which alone would have had little effect).

As for some of the comments above about repenting to some likely non-existant deity, I don't think that's really going to help us out. Mainstream religions seem to prop up such damaging systems as ours and so will only make the problem worse.

Ultimately, if people are not alienated by society itself, or don't have their own personal problems, then what they see on television is unlikely to have a personal effect on their lives in an derogatory way. Mary Whitehouse was wrong. Her zealous, followers are deluded.
Are green taxes dead? 8:25pm on 27 May 2008 Just because the government and oppositon parties abuse the issue of the environment and climate change does not mean the issue isn't as hugely important and looming as it's deamed to be.

Labour and the Conservatives are the same people, out for the same interests. Of course they will do the bare minimum on environmental issues, as it's a way to win votes when it shouldn't be. Labour have pathetic policies on the environment so much so that they may as well do nothing. The 60% reduction in the climate change bill is nowhere near strong enough, and they have no policies to back it up, most of their policies, more roads, increased flights, investment in detrimenal power resources (funnily, someone above attacks people for opposing coal and nuclear and then attacks wind power for superficial reasons). The Tories have NO POLICIES on the environment.

When they roll out policies such as this, not only do they do it stupidly, they fail to back it up with sufficient reasoning, pissing off the general populace, and as many of the ignorant comments above, create a huge level of cynicism on the issue. The worst thing Gordon Brown and co. have done for the environment is do SOMETHING.

As for the issue, the evidence of Labour and Tory pandering and abuse of this issue is clear. In a short amount of time, cynicism of climate change being worsened by man has suddenly boomed. With nothing to support it coming out bar the same negligible information, false statistics and self interest. Even those companies who funded so much PR to try and debunk climate change are starting to change as they can make a quick buck by pretending to be environmentally friendly.

As it stands, there is no consensus (and there is no consensus on anything in science) that we are doing a lot of damage, but there is a much weightier some of evidence to suggest (90% of it) we are. Global warming is a natural process. We are accelerating it. This is where the confusion lies. We don't cause it. But very few scientists that aren't in the pockets of industries that are afraid deny that carbon dioxide and related gasses have a strong link to global average temperature. We are emitting huge levels of these gasses at an increasing rate.

Only a complete moron would deny we are having a major effect. Unfortunatly we have complete morons running this country too who don't understand that anything with the word 'tax' will make people sceptical of an issue. We need regulations on industry so people don't bear the brunt, but the huge profits of industry do. Carbon trading at an individual level would work as well, combined with this and an increased level of education and energy efficiency incentivisation (giving free insulation etc.).

Unfortunatly, the government is bringing the issue further and further into disrepute. Even worse still, the Tories would probably be worse.

We aren't doomed, in a long term sense, but we're doomed with these idiots in power.

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