Gore's pollution smokescreen

By Darren Weeks

Here is a classic example of the double-standard that is in play when it comes to removing the wealth status of the "developed" countries.

Communist China's atmosphere is a cesspool of environmental pollution. The pollution has become such a major problem that villagers are becoming sick. In addition, Reuters reports about China, that...

Protests against polluting industries are common across China's countryside, where the environment has all too often been sacrificed in the pursuit of profits.

Ahh, those evil profits! Dirty, filthy, money! How often have we heard of the greed of western corporations and the American people? How often have we been confronted with our excesses and wastes in comparison with the rest of the resource-starved world?

Now comes communist China, enriched by our WTO entanglements, following our "selfish" example!

Where is Al Gorey when you need him? Why isn't he on the Letterman show now, bemoaning the perils of China's "greenhouse" emissions? Why is it only the evil west that is to blame for the fraudulent claim that anthropogenic greenhouse warming is occurring? Why don't Gore and the other America lasters, who belly-ache and whine about the wicked United States putting profits ahead of the environment, apply the same standard when it comes to communist China?

China is being transformed into a wealthy, industrial giant — unencumbered by the insane and highly restrictive environmental rules and regulations that are crippling American interests.

It was the Clinton-Gore administration that agreed to Agenda 21. It was the Clinton-Gore administration that established the President's Council on Sustainable Development. It was the same administration that signed the U.S. onto the Kyoto Protocol, even though the Senate wisely failed to ratify it.

It's fairly odd that I haven't heard of any stories about people becoming ill from the pollution of U.S. plants and factories. Of course, given the fact that most of them are shutting down and moving to China, perhaps that provides some insight as to the reason.

Regardless, if the earth is really "in the balance", as Mr. Al Gorey suggests, and if Mr. Gorey believes that the truth is really "inconvenient" about anthropogenic GHG emissions, why doesn't he give red China equal "whine" time?

Could it be that Mr. Gorey only wants the U.S. to suffer setbacks to its development? If so, what reason would Mr. Gorey have for harboring such feelings? Why would Mr. Gorey wish to put the United States at a global strategic disadvantage?

Perhaps, the fog of China's pollution provides a very clear example as to the real agenda and motive behind Al Gore's global warming scares.

Is it about the environment? Is it about saving the planet?

Or is it really about socialism, and leveling the playing field?

Me thinks the latter.