State of Litigation

The people who adore climate change as a means to make capitalist countries accountable had a few giggles over the Michael Crichton novel State of Fear. The book was a techno-thriller baked together with a treatise on global warming - one which called into question the notion that human activity is causing major disruption to the environment. Crichton even added graphs and charts to the story.

Many people accept the environmental gospel unquestioningly. Of course geologically speaking the climate has been changing rapidly back and forth between cold and hot extremes every 20,000 years for the past millennium. But nevermind. Drawing attention to that simple fact is somehow kookypants Republican talk.

Now life imitates art in at least one way. In the book there is a lawsuit brought by indigenous people against Western countries for mucking up nature and making things all koyaanisqatsi. Checking the Google News today we see the Inuit Circumpolar Conference has decided that emissions from the United States is making things a wee bit too balmy in the Arctic netheregions, and that's a violation of their human rights for goodness sake, so they are pressing a lawsuit against the United States.

Fine. Somehow I don't think we'll go broke. But did you know the weather report in Beijing is now smoke? Not rainy, or partly cloudy. But smoke. I took a screensnap from the MSN weather site.

And this smoke, for those of you who are unaware, is the natural result of the Chinese economy huffing and puffing it's way through the industrial age trying madly to catch up to the rest of the world. They don't give a panda bear's sphincter about emissions. And they nothing to fear from environmentalist attorneys either. Because the first rule of litigation is go after people with the big money.