One Upside to the Economic Crisis

 At least one scientist is talking about the positive effect that the economic crisis will have, and no I am not talking about the foreclosed properties that people are now going to be able to buy at very affordable prices. I am talking about a topic that is an old friend of mine but one which I haven’t written about in a while.

 Global warming. Paul J Crutzen, a Nobel prize winning scientist has just admitted that while the economy may be hurting people it is saving the planet.

It’s a cruel thing to say … but if we are looking at a slowdown in the economy, there will be less fossil fuels burning, so for the climate it could be an advantage,” Crutzen told Reuters in an interview.

“We could have a much slower increase of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere … people will start saving (on energy use) … but things may get worse if there is less money available for research and that would be serious.”

 I have long held the belief that global warming is not really about saving the planet but rather about subjugating the American people through taxes, fees, regulations and restrictions. All of these things would hurt the economy and now we have a scientist admitting that a hurting economy is good for the planet.

 I have said it before and now I am going to say it again. Every solution that we have heard to stop global warming contains at least one of the following; more taxes, more restrictions, or more government control. All three of these are actually one in the same however. More taxes means less money for the people (which hurts the economy, and means less freedom because of the lack of extra money), more restrictions means less freedom; less freedom, less money, and more restrictions mean more government control. (Did that read right, it sounded right in my head.)

 All of this is bad for the economy, raising taxes and fees always hurts the economy. So in reality all of the solutions for global warming hurt the economy, and with a bad economy comes more people looking to the government for help. The government will be implementing the tools that force the people to look toward the government to help them.

 We have just come full circle.