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There is nothing socially responsible about “reducing food supply to a
hungry world,” a problem that carbon taxes and cap and trade can only
exacerbate. For every person (if any) this agenda saves from nebulous
threats like rising sea levels, weather changes, and so on, it is likely to kill
dozens if not hundreds through a far lower standard of living if not out-
right poverty. Closer inspection of the agenda in question shows that social
responsibility has very little to do with it.
Special Interests and the Climate Agenda
Businesses have both a legal and ethical obligation to provide safe work
environments for employees and not release genuine pollutants that endan-
ger human or by implication animal heal ...