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Over 400 Scientists call man made Global Warming a Hoax in '07

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AndrE16686:

--- Quote from: Trauma-san on January 02, 2008, 06:10:14 AM ---^ Your next mistake was, you assume I believe Government has a role in this.  I don't.  I think it's a personal responsibility.  I live in America, the land of the free, nobody tells me what kind of lightbulbs to buy.  I'm glad you're pissed that Howard didn't make you buy nice lightbulbs, but why didn't you buy them yourself? 

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LOL you are being gay and prentious now.



Its up to both individuals AND the government.  In Australia, over those past 11-years it was ONLY people outside the government who were doing anything environmentally conscious, the people the only ones giving a damn, while our government purposefully ignored the issue due to commercial pressure.

I agree with the Republican notions of freedom from government interference and personal responsibility, however, government still needs to play a role, in making laws, policy and regulations in the public and national interest, if there are only people doing things without government backing, changes don't go very far, until elections at least and even then, elections are not always won on issues that entirely represent the national interest, elections may be won on issues specifically highlighted by the major lobby groups and media power-brokers, not issues more related to the actual national interest of the people and the nation.  Howard managed to stay elected over issues primarily economic and security related, the environment was an issue overlooked by him, but not the opposition who unfortunately blundered the issue over and over. In Australia, we have water-restrictions, the government tells us when we may water our gardens and how we may use water, from a Republican view, isn't that infringing on people's personal freedom? In some ways it is but, it is government power exercised in the national interest, so it is justified in the people's and the nation's best interest, same goes for the environment in my opinion, it does no good in the national interest to destroy our environment, infact it is in the national interest to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and reduce our consumption of energy and find more efficient ways to use power and reduce waste of energy, therefore it is/was a government responsibility aswell as a personal one, to use energy saving lightbulbs (which government buildings do anyway) among many many many other things.

It matters little now however, we finally have a government elected to power more conscious of the environment.

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