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The debate on global warming hasn't changed any since 1969. Conservatives just can't remember rivers on fire, factory smoke that choked cities and the smoke belched from auto tailpipes.
Despite the memory failures, the arguments from the bizarre right are the same now as then.
"Pollution isn't harmful and stopping pollution will cost somebody a lot of money." That is the bottom line in the global warming defense.
"Pollution isn't harming me and I don't want to spend my money on other people's problems." How Christian! How "American!" How selfish.
To put sarcasm aside for just a moment, no reasonable person can possibly say that humans don't pollute or defend pollution as economic necessity. No reasonable person is willing to breathe the exhaust gas directly out of the tailpipe of a car. No reasonable person is willing to drink water directly from the Chattahoochee just south of Atlanta. No reasonable person eats a side order of mercury, lead and DDT with their Big Mac.
No reasonable person.
Michael Parker
Flowery Branch
Originally published Monday, July 16, 2007
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