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Former Republican Majority Leader and current lobbyist Dick Armey has declared in congressional testimony that God would not allow global warming to destroy the earth:
"We have sort of an eco-evangelical hysteria that's going on and it leads me to almost wonder if we are becoming a nation of environmental hypochondriacs that are willing to use the power of the state to impose enormous restrictions on the rights and the comforts of, and incomes of individuals who serve essentially a paranoia, a phobia, that has very little fact evidence in fact.
Now these are observations that are popular to make because right now it's almost taken as an article of faith that this crisis is real. Let me say I take it as an article of faith if the lord God almighty made the heavens and the Earth, and he made them to his satisfaction and it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings here on earth to think that we are going to destroy God's creation. [...]"
Actually, Mr. Armey is quite correct. We little weaklings cannot destroy the earth, however, we can for damn sure make one hell of a big mess for ourselves, one that will disrupt the lives of millions of people and cost billions of dollars to contend with. Consider that the rantings of a eco-evangelical hysteric.
This essay first appeared in www.PlanetRestart.org
