Micromanaging Carbon: Another Suggested Carbon Cap Per Person

I was on Mark Levin last week. No, I wasn’t interviewed. I called in.

He was discussing cap and trade and global warming in general and since it’s a topic I am a bit passionate about, I called in to discuss an article I wrote about 18 months ago called “Control by Carbon: The Totalitarian Side of Climate Change.” In it, I discussed a proposal in Great Britain to issue “carbon credit cards” to citizens, limiting the amount of carbon an individual could expend in a given year.

My comment to Mark was that what is proposed or enacted in the once Great Britain has a way of getting over here, usually in California. For example, Great Britain banned plasma televisions. Soon, California was talking about doing the same thing.

The idea that a government could tell an individual that they could travel only if they paid a fine for excessive carbon creation is abhorrent to me. But that’s what is being suggested.

Another idea has been floated recently. Focus on the rich:

Rich people’s lives tend to give off more greenhouse gases because they drive more fossil-fueled vehicles, travel frequently by air and live in big houses that take more fuel to heat and cool.

By focusing on rich people everywhere, rather than rich countries and poor ones, the system of setting carbon-cutting targets based on the number of wealthy individuals in various countries would ease developing countries into any new climate change framework, Chakravarty said by telephone.

“As countries develop — India, China, Brazil and others — over time, they’ll have more and more of these (wealthy) individuals and they’ll have a higher share of carbon reductions to do in the future,” he said.

So, how is this not going to damage the economy of rich nations? Poor people do not start companies. They do not hire people. They don’t create opportunities.

I want rich people in America. I want a lot of rich people in America. Heck, I want to be a rich person in America.

After they eat the rich, they will still be hungry. They will want the middle class next. Don’t worry, it’s for the common good.

By the way, where I was, this was the second coldest Fourth of July in history. It’s getting colder, yet they want to destroy the rich people to stop global warming. Tell me again this is about climate change.