Letter to the Editor: Beware of the scare tactics

One of the basic tenets of psychology is to understand the many ways fear is used as a tool to control people’s behavior.
For years we have heard dire predictions from global warming/climate change and large carbon footprints. There is, has been, and always will be climate change. It is called seasons.
Hopefully, people know that all animals, including humans, expel carbon dioxide (C02) with every breath they take.
Now Big Brother would like to protect us from ourselves with cap and trade. Simply put, Goodboy Corp., would be very green and abide by allotted carbon credits (cap) or use less so as to accrue extra carbon credits. Badboy Corp., has used in excess of his carbon credits. So Badboy Corp., buys from Goodboy Corp.,  his extra carbon credits (trade) to offset his excess.
Wall Street would be in seventh heaven because they could trade carbon credit shares on the stock market.
We are good stewards of our environment as proven by NASA’s satellite pictures of the earth’s atmosphere, but how arrogant of man to think he could either improve or destroy that which God has created.
Follow the money, greed, and power, whether foreign or domestic.
All Gore has made 100 million dollars peddling his carbon footprint theory.
In January, President Obama will attend a climate change conference in Copenhagen sponsored by the U.N.
Beware the use of scare tactics and the Kyoto treaty!

Joan Ryan
Hannibal