Republicans seek to 'neuter' new global warming committee

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Why does everyone want to *stop* global warming? Even if we caused it, it's already too late.

We should just accept it as a fact and be ready to deal with the consequences.

You're missing the point - it's about recognizing the cause and effect of human activity with regard to the environment. Science and history have demonstrated most definitely the detrimental affect humans can have on the environment - to the point of irreversability. So what you really should be asking is...

Why is the idea of a sustainable future so foreign to some? Because it means conserving now for the sake of our children's children. It's the 'we want it all and we want it now - and f#ck the future' attitude that will be our demise. Farmers can't farm like that. Small businesses can't run like that. Hmmmm...wonder where that attitude permiates from? *cough* corporatization.

Oh yeah Steven. The EVIL CORPORATIONS ARE TO BLAME!!!! You really trip me out by your anti-capitalistic views. Everything evil in the world is caused by "big corporations"!

I WANT GW! I want things to get warmer! I think it would be a better world without the nasty winters! But the most important thing is: Our climate is changing (if it's changing) because of natural forces and not man-made ones. Leave it alone and let nature take its course. And stay out of my wallet just because you want to believe in junk science! Jeez! Liberals and taxes. Your solution to everything is to tax what you don't like.

It's not in the best interest of a corporation to look for long term solutions - are you arguing against that? What do you suppose would happen to the CEO of a corporation if he were to make changes in production where the benefits wouldn't be felt directly by the shareholders, would cost some money up front and the gains would take 20-30 years to mature? What's the average length of tenure for a corporate CEO? It's the nature of the beast, Gary - corporations sole purpose of existence is for profit - and will operate to maximize that profit as quickly it can. Do you not agree? Restructering a corporation for a more sustainable future doesn't fit into that scheme.

What a cynical view! What do you think, that people that run big business live on the moon? They live on the same planet that the rest of us do and they don't want it f#cked up any more that we do. Your hatred of big business shows just how out of touch you are Steven. WAKE UP!!

Gary, it was a generalization of the corporate mentality - profit comes first. You can dance around that all you want, but that's the cold hard truth about corporations. Do some CEO's truly care about a sustainable future? Sure. But when all is said and done - if they don't make the shareholder's happy, they don't stay in charge for long. 'Profit comes first' will be the demise of our environment and it is already happening. Sustainability is like a flat line in terms of capital growth. Not everything can be turned into a buck and not everything is replaceable.

I guess then there's no need for all those emmissions controls on motor-vehicles. It's not like Southern California has an pollution problem...