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All of a sudden everybody's talking Globalagreed to be interviewed in a TV studio that
Warming.creates a carbon footprint big enough to
stamp out New Jersey?" or, "How come you not
Oh,  you  noticed?slimming down, riding a bike, stead of a
Beemer?" or "How come you not unloading your
Talking heads on CNN, Fox, NBC, PBS,shares in Big Oil, Big Agro, Big Mining, Big
presidential hopefuls they think it'll garnerTimber, Big Auto, and all those banks do
a few votes. They all falling over onebusiness  with  them?"
another to be greener than the others. It
would be funny if it weren't so grotesque.Nobody asks these eco-bozos, "How come most
Each one of these idiots has a team ofof your solutions penalize the poor?" or,
writers, heart-rending clips of hunks falling"How come most of your solutions involve
off the ice cap, and polar bears swimminghigher taxes for the punters and not the
desperately in search of long-gone icebergs.corporate polluters?" or, "Why is it that
These same idiots head off like so manyNorth America (the most
lemmings to world conferences (generally heldtechnologically-advanced country in the
in places with palm trees, swimming pools,world, inventor of the Big Mac and the frozen
five-star restaurants and luxury hotels) ondinner) cannot produce economic,
Global Warming, sit around look serious, orpollution-free ethanol, when Willie Nelson
stand and make passionate. And you know?and Brazil have been doing it for years?" or,
Nothing ever comes out of it. Nothing gets"Why is it you allow automobile
done. Despite the speeches, the one-liners,manufacturers to load their sardine cans with
the video footage, and the Nobel Prizes, themore and more gas guzzling gizmos and junk?"
globe continues to heat and not one of thoseI mean, do we really need self-warming
speaking heads seems to have any idea how tocoffee-holders? And, "How come any really
apply  the  brakes.good  solution  never  see the light of day?"
Something stinks, and it's not the greenhouseBut, more to the point. "If you so damn
gasses.scared about global warming, how about you
dropping your private agendas, sorting out
Truth is, Global Warming has become bigyour real motives, then coming back, tell us
business. A growth industry. It generateswhat's really happening. In plain,
tons of hot air and socking big fat offshoredown-to-earth  language,  no  hype."
blind  trusts.
Too much to expect. Global warming, carbon
Most of the Global Warming gurus don't wantfootprints- real serious stuff, if not for
global warming to go away. It's a terrificus, then for our offspring- has become the
gig. It's making them rich and famous. Theylatest scam, the latest political pawn, the
get to talk with Larry King, shill the Globallatest  milk  cow.
Warming books they had someone else write for
them. They get to sit around, getting made upIf it goes on, we're lost. The globe is lost.
by pretty teenagers with sensationalAnd  the  polar  bears  will  drown.
cleavages, doing nothing more energetic than
yap until dinnertime. They get to act smug,When David Lovattsmith was young, Co2
telling us we are a bunch of pollutingemissions were still a sign of enlightened
sinners. They even win Nobel prizes atadvancement, but global warming was already
ceremonies with a carbon footprint the sizeon a roll. Now, all we need is for the
of  Vermont.experts to lay off their hype, and come
clean.
Nobody asks these eco-bozos, "After the show,
how you going to get home?" (the Hummer, youWe can slow down the mess. We can car pool,
kidding?) or, "How did you get here?" (Boeingcompost, switch off Lou Dobbs, use less
747, and lemme tellya the pretzels werewater, cut out chemical cleaners, turn down
stale) or, "How big is your home?" (fourthe thermostat, wear warmer clothes imndoors,
baths, a Jacuzzi, six-ton Carrier heating andso on and so forth. But the main problem lies
air-conditioning unit on the roof) or, "Howwith governmental scams and global warming
come  you're  so  fat?"gurus. They have to drop their corporate
sponsors, clean up their act, before
Nobody asks these eco-bozos, "How come youhumankind can clean up the environment.



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