Global warming alarmists can never be satisified
After attacking the car, power, food and just about every other industry, the climate change alarmists have found a new industry to attack: the internet.
According to that CNN article, internet usage someday in the distant future could equal up to 20 percent of the world’s carbon emissions (the number is currently at 2 percent).
While 20 percent may seem like a frightening number, the article misses a huge point: the internet replaces several other ways to pollute.
What would the scaremongers prefer: turning on our cars to go to the library to check out a book (that probably hasn’t been printed on recycled paper) or reading a book online? Would they prefer millions of people driving to malls to do their Christmas shopping or having those same people staying at home ordering their gifts online and having a few UPS/Fed Ex trucks do all of the driving?
When something some day in the future could cause 20 percent of global carbon emissions, it is easy to scream for a need for “green regulation”. However, this would just create an internet tax, making it unaffordable to millions of people, and as a result, there will just be more pollution.
User Comments
slikkwon
July, 2009
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-green-nazi-hell-and-americas-future/
Clint
July, 2009
Good points. Part of the promise of the Internet is that it can reduce a lot of the materials we produce, especially the materials that are basically trash to begin with — newspapers.
gene nichol
July, 2009
I would argue that the internet tax would put people in tax “double jeopardy” because it overlaps with the lighswitch tax already proposed