Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a quick overview of Texas' resistance to new E.P.A. regulations governing greenhouse gases.
Texas politicians are using the usual Republican talking points to justify their resistance, saying the Obama E.P.A. "is putting a target on Texas." Well, Texas is big enough so a bullseye would be superfluous, but never mind.
The howler, unsurprisingly, is courtesy the unapologetically anti-intellectual Governor Rick Perry: "People are tired of the government cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives. They're tired of the government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies that have nothing to do with science or economics."
To use a term with which a proud Texan ought to be familiar: horseshit, Governor. Just because your state is still inextricably hung up on fossil fuels doesn't mean you should get to drag the rest of us down with you. We're looking past fossil fuels because real science -- the kind you deride for the benefit of your cronies and contributors -- long since has concluded fossil fuels are (1) finite, (2) making our air (and water and land, come to think of it) dirtier, and (3) almost certainly altering our environment in a way that puts our survival as a species in question.
You want to spew your toxins without regard to others? Put a fucking dome over your state. Otherwise, accept that you live in a democracy in which the rest of us have decided we have to do something about the dirty economy we've created.
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