The nation's largest business lobby wants to perpetuate the "manufactroversy" about climate change science reports the Los Angeles Times.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific evidence for man-made climate change.Any responsible person today must recognize that the business-as-usual models must die and that from their ashes we have to create a new kind of economy that integrates social and environmental concerns into it as well. The kind of future we will live in - and much of the biosphere's future - depends on how we transform our industries now. We've waited too long already. To suggest otherwise is perhaps the gravest error we can make. It consigns the industrially poor to worsening conditions, indigenous people to lost or transformed space, and will perpetuate and accelerate the sixth extinction we have caused. All ecologists know this.
But the best part is this piece of newspeak:
Chamber officials say it would be "the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century" -- complete with witnesses, cross-examinations and a judge who would rule, essentially, on whether humans are warming the planet to dangerous effect.Like that? Equating climate science with creationism? Vile.
"It would be evolution versus creationism," said William Kovacs, the chamber's senior vice president for environment, technology and regulatory affairs. "It would be the science of climate change on trial."
But this is what happens with entrenched and intractable interests. They invert terms so that love is hate and hate is love, ugliness is beauty and beauty is ugliness, and care is neglect and neglect is care. When you have nothing but empty profit to fight for screwing around with perception becomes the means because they have no real evidence with which to work so they manipulate fears with propaganda. It's a mock kangaroo court they want here
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