finally!

We finally have government regulations to cut carbon emissions, and I'm celebrating.

There's no doubt that our societies - our actions - have unbalanced the global carbon cycle, which exacerbates global warming. The data is there: It's heavily scrutinized and still solid, and no amount of legislation banning certain terms or memos not to use them is going to wish the situation away. The only thing we gain by ignoring it is the illusion we don't have to do anything about it. Put another way, we'd fool ourselves.

Unfortunately, global warming has been politicized, which means we think there's got to be two sides to the issue and somehow makes our opinions only just as valid as the next opinion. This isn't a matter of opinion, though: It's happening. It's a tragedy of the commons that the libertarian philosophy cannot solve, and one of many examples where we need government - government for the people - to improve out lot. Since it's laws that we abide, global warming had to go into the political arena for something lasting to be done about it. Yes, I am glad we have government regulations.