Lew Uhler, National Tax Limitation Committee, Debunks the Myth of Paper Bags vs. Plastic Bags
Lew Uhler, President of the National Tax Limitation Committee, applauds the actions of young people in celebrating the myth of Global Warming and environmental doomsday, which underlies the battle over paper bags verses plastic bags. Young people have the greatest stake in our planet and a free society.
(Issues Wire / PRWEB) April 12, 2008 -- Lew Uhler, President of the National Tax Limitation Committee, applauds the actions of young people in celebrating the myth of Global Warming and environmental doomsday, which underlies the battle over paper bags verses plastic bags. Young people have the greatest stake in our planet and a free society. This issue is a microcosm of the "Green Marketing" stampede that is mindlessly and blindly drawing many businesses worldwide. The unnecessary costs being imposed on unsuspecting consumers by these green campaigns and a wave of new government regulations constitute new "taxes" just as surely as if they had been voted on and imposed by Congress, Uhler says. Economic and personal freedom are the ultimate casualties.
The paper versus plastic bag fight puts "Green Marketing" and Global Warming Mythology in perspective, Uhler says. It used to be said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. That short list has now been increased to include environmental doomsday courtesy of the global warming mania.
Virtually every business has been caught up in "Green Marketing," claiming to be more environmentally sensitive and responsive than their competitor. The paper verses plastic shopping bag battle is a case in point. There is no scientific basis to claims that plastic bags are harmful to the environment, Uhler says, but it sure puts paper bag manufacturers and distributors at a competitive advantage if they can make consumers believe that and reject plastic bags at their supermarket.
Uhler says that "truth in advertising" is about to get trumped by "environmental sensitivity" as marketing tools if Americans don't wise up to Global Warming Mythology. And the added burden on industry and consumers in the form of regulations and other real world costs are becoming staggering. The only winners will be the bureaucrats and those who want more powerful government and less individual freedom, Uhler says.
We talk of Global Warming "Mythology" because of the concept's origins and the fact that multitudes of respected climatologists have rejected the theory. It all started about in the last two decades, when James Hansen, then Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, needed to have his budget increased. He came before Al Gore's Senate Committee and said he needed a half billion dollar budget increase to study "global climate change." He got the money. There after, the only climatologists funded by the federal grants were those who concluded that the globe was warming and directly as a result of man-made industrial causes, Uhler says. From this humble beginning -- a federal agency's need for more money -- the global warming mania has exploded and now grips the world because it has fed the liberal hatred of corporations and industry and the left's compulsion to expand the size and role of government, Uhler says.
The paper bag industry would serve the interests of all Americans well by extolling the virtues of their product and not claiming that their competitors in the plastic bag business are messing up the planet, Uhler says. These are the stakes: to hold accountable those who make wild reckless claims and refuse to back them up.
"I encourage Americans young and old to get involved in this issue and other causes where truth, reason, and scientific facts are under assault," Uhler says.
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