Charlotte Disturber

Articles like this (you may need to register, and that's what bugmenot.com is for) gripe my butt. It talks about a new bill before the NC state legislature that would create a commission to study the effects of carbon dioxide and its effect on the environment. Now why would that bug me? Because this bill is such a huge waste of the taxpayer's money. It's been compromised to death. It's not there to say "hey, our environment is in trouble" but rather, "let's look to see whether this is a problem."

And I have a problem with this, because I think by now we can all admit that while global warming may be just a natural cycle in the constant change of the world, it may not be, and humans are doing plenty of other things to mess up the environment. For the sake of argument, let's say that carbon dioxide isn't causing global warming, but it seems that it along with the other pollutants usually expelled by fossil fuel burning plants and engines are just plain bad, causing increased acid rain, smog, and even negatively affecting our health. Let's make it stop. There have been enough studies on the subject. It's safe to say it's bad, mmkay.

Compromised to Death, that's what’s happened to this bill. So we may find that yes, humans and their use of technology may have a somewhat detrimental effect on this planet, which may result in events which we will find are even more detrimental to ourselves. Like that last sentence made sense, what are we going to do about it? According to this bill, nothing. Oh, a few recommendations will be made, but nothing will be done about it. So really, what's the point? Why waste money trying to figure out to see if a problem already exists when there have been plenty of studies already done on the subject.

It gets even better. Rolf Blizzard the vice president of governmental affairs for the NC Citizens for Business and Industry had this key nugget to add, "Our membership is of the very strong opinion that just doing something in the state of North Carolina is not going to correct anything." Great attitude. This state is only a few hundred square miles and 8 million people, changing the way that 8 million people and the way they conducted business wouldn't change a thing. Blizzard, you're names cool, but you sound like a moron with that quote. We shouldn't even try to do anything, because it might not make a difference. I'll have to remember that one next time I walk past some trash and decide to not pick it up, because it's not going to make a difference anyway.

And I'm spent. Read the article, I have more to add, but this level of useless stupidity has me ticked off. Who says dictatorship is a bad idea?