Environmentalist Agenda is Counter-Productive

One of the biggest issues we will hear about in the 2008 election cycle is the “Global Climate Change Crisis!” Extremist liberals have labeled the threat of global warming as their “crisis of the year.” The buzz over this crisis is so great that even government bureaucracies are asking their own scientists to propose projects to study the impact of global climate change. Once again, liberals have found another avenue to create additional bureaucracy and regulation to control the lives of American citizens.

The liberal elite have in innate distrust of American businesses to act responsibly and to adjust to markets. With respect to the “global climate change crisis,” the liberals are working towards regulating businesses, individuals, and industries that liberals perceive as a threat to the environment. In reality, they are looking to regulate businesses, individuals, and industries that do not follow the liberal agenda of the socialist utopian society. The global climate change crisis is spurred on by foreign countries in an effort to level the playing international playing field by taking the US economy down a notch.

Americans have a keen interest in preserving our environment for future generations and for be good stewards of our natural resources. Liberals have caused a stir among mainstream Americans by using their age old tactic of driving a wedge between the average American and businesses. But if you look at the policies that the liberals entertain to solve this “crisis,” the solution will be worse than the current situation.

Increasing government regulations on emissions only costs taxpayers more money. It also takes money out of the hands of the corporations that hire the best and brightest engineers and entrepreneurs to create new technology to allow the market and individuals making decisions to pursue a clean environment. Higher taxes and more regulation only hurt the American consumer by driving the cost of products up and by putting the services into the hands of largely incompetent bureaucrats.

By having an incentive-laden market, in which people are financially rewarded for their ingenuity and service, we can achieve the solutions that we need to spur technology forward to use fewer natural resources and to be better stewards of the resources available. Government bureaucrats have never come up with these environmental solutions, yet through the policies proposed by the liberal elite, only the government will be around to determine the regulations. By lifting environmental regulations, lowering taxes, and reducing the size of bureaucracies, we can allow our markets and our brightest individuals to determine our solutions instead of disgruntled bureaucrats.