Monday, July 23, 2007

Global Warming Swindle?

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle are a bad idea. (Just check out the growing number of recycling containers in our living room.) Any efforts to beautify and improve our environment ought to be welcomed.

But after viewing a documentary (The Great Global Warming Swindle) and reading Lorne Gunter's piece in today's National Post, I'm a little more skeptical about the ideology and political motivations behind global warming. I'm not prepared to call it a "conspiracy" quite yet, but the global warming skeptics really are starting to get their act together. The anti-consumerism, big-government tenets of the global warming movement do smack of 1960s and 1970s socialism. Food for thought, and (quite possibly) more convenient truths.