The truth behind the Global Warming scam shines forth yet again!
[California] Attorney General Jerry Brown on Tuesday said he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California unless its effects on global warming are evaluated.
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Brown said the company must put its revisions into a new contract with the town of McCloud. He wants proper study of the environmental consequences of the bottling operation, saying the previous draft review had “serious deficiencies.”
He said it failed to include an examination of whether the operation will contribute to global warming through the production of plastic bottles, the operation’s electrical demands and the diesel soot and greenhouse gas emissions produced by trucks traveling to and from the plant.
“It takes massive quantities of oil to produce plastic water bottles and to ship them in diesel trucks across the United States,” Brown said in a statement. “Nestle will face swift legal challenge if it does not fully evaluate the environmental impact of diverting millions of gallons of spring water from the McCloud River into billions of plastic water bottles.”
A blind man could have seen this one coming. The Global Warming scam is just a lawyer trick. Note that once the myth of fuel emissions causing Global Warming becomes legal precedence, every company on Earth will face the same lawsuits. You want to drink a Coke? Guess what! Those are bottled elsewhere and driven by a truck to your supermarket. And then you drive to the market to buy it. (And what do you do with the plastic bottle when you’re done? You, my friend, are part of the problem too!)
But don’t worry. After you’re sued out of your house, you can’t even live in a cave in the ground–who knows what pollutants you’ll be putting into the groundwater supply? And besides, you’re a threat to the brown bears that want to sleep in the same cave.
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 am
Do you really have the sort of breathless fear of litigation stemming from environmentalism?
Long before there was global climate change, there was environmental litigation to stop factory construction until environmental impact studies were done.
As an aside, I don’t drink plastic bottled anything anymore, and keep one of my trusty BPA-filled Nalgenes with me at all times.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Actually rather than “breathless fear” I was giving a reductio ad absurdum. But I do think there are similarities between what envirowackos are planning and what we already see with medical malpractice suits. We don’t think much of them these days, but they’re the single greatest reason for high healthcare costs and fewer doctors.
And for that matter, environmental lawsuits have done their share in keeping prices up and innovation down. Not *all* of that is a bad thing, but there are plenty of times that governmental interference is overkill. It’s already at the point where you, on your own land, cannot expand your house without filling out dozens of building permits, studying the environmental impact of your new porch, etc. It’s ridiculous. In some places you even need a permit to build a dog house in your backyard.
In any case, I’m not opposed to you not drinking anything from plastic bottles. I’m not against recycling or anything like that (in fact, I think recycling is a good thing, and Americans waste too much as it is). But I do have a problem with governments declaring an emergency on shaky scientific grounds and then suing companies based on their manufactured emergency. Even if Global Warming is real (as opposed to local warming, which I think there is evidence of–as in, apparently the North Pole is locally warming, but the North Pole isn’t the entire world), the planet has existed with higher temperatures than even those that are projected by the hysterical UN folks. More to the point: life has existed on Earth during those times. We’re not going to destroy the Earth because Nestle bottles water.