Burning Up About Carbon Pt. 2

Yesterday we discovered that there is no link between increases in global temperatures and CO2, and therefore no scientific reason to tax or trade or regulate it. So why the big push?

If one were to try to gain maximum control a population of creatures, one could try controlling each of their individual activities.

You'd need to control their food gathering, what they gathered, when they gathered, where they store it, when they ate, how much they ate, who got to eat, when and where they eliminated, etc. And this just considers food gathering. We haven't even thought about recreation, reproduction, politics, religion, and all the other activities that sentient beings do. As you can see, all this controlling gets rather complicated and tedious.

But there's an easier way. All the truly lazy tyrant need do is to control some substrate that is used in each and every activity of the creatures. Let's take energy as an example. Since energy of some form is, by definition, needed for all activity, all the tyrant need do is control the energy and therefore all activity is controlled. Energy would be a vulnerable strategic choke point.

So let's move our hypothetical tyrant here, to Earth. If we want to control sentient beings on this planet, we'd need to find some substrate to control. Some logistic and strategic choke point. Any suggestions from the crowd?

That's the reason they want to tax and trade and regulate carbon. It isn't that carbon is evil, or that you're evil. It isn't because you're human or even that you're a mammal. It's just that you happen to be sentient, and worth controlling, and happen to be a carbon based life form. If they control carbon, they control YOU.

That's what it's about to me. Freedom.

I live in a rather rural area. Some years ago, a young boy (Hi Jack!) asked why I lived there. I told him, "Because it's my land, and I can do what I want here". My land, not the State's nor the King's. My home. My trees. My deer, not the King's deer.

But soon, that won't be true.

Many activities here require internal combustion. Mower or tractor or trimmer or chainsaw can now be taxed and traded and regulated. Use electricity? Also controlled. Want to go off the grid and just use the generator? Controlled. Drive? Controlled. Give up IC engines and go for horse power? Also a carbon source, and also controlled.

What about the basics? All I ingest contains carbon except water. All can now be controlled. (possibly even a home veggie garden, see HR 875) We all, I hate to say, produce methane. Literally, they can control your butt. Go exercise? That increases my personal CO2 output and can be controlled. Decide to have kids? WHAT!? And bring another CO2 producer into an overpopulated world? Guess what? Controlled.

If they control carbon, they control YOU.

In the classic Robin Hood movies, the Merry Men, to avoid starvation, eat the King's deer. They are sentenced to death for their crime.

Will you be put in a similar situation? Will you be free to pursue your dreams and goals? Will you be free to live your own life in your own manner? I can sum this up better in one line.

Who owns you, you or a King?

The Grey Man