Green Innumeracy Update (Part 21396)

clipped from planetgore.nationalreview.com Keep in mind that transportation is typically only 20 percent of a mature nation’s emissions. With increasing middle classes, the BRIC countries will also be buying every other electricity-drawing product on the market from laptops to lamps, not to mention ever bigger homes, businesses, etc.   Why is the auto in demand around the world? “Because,” says Apfel, drawing on the companies vast global marketing research, “the auto, like the Internet, is an enabler. It is the avenue to freedom. That is a universal value.” Simply put, trying to manage 80-percent emissions cuts by 2050 would require centralized control of this “universal value” on the order of a totalitarian state, and all the economic chaos and threat to personal freedoms that would engender.