New Zealanders protest Kyoto taxes
You see, this is why I get upset with the "we should apply the precautionary principle" nitwits. In adopting their precautionary principle and acting against global warming by stopping our use of cheap fossil fuels to lower our carbon footprint and submit to paying Green taxes is in fact to de facto cede the argument to the alarmists. The trouble is, either the alarmists are right (and we should do all these things because the science IS settled) or, if the science does not support their case (and it plainly doesn't) then applying their "precautionary principle" will simply make us all poorer (through pointless Green taxes), impoverish our national economies, threaten the very lives of the world's poor (who can't develop) and put countless thousands out of work, amongst other things.
That is precisely why these New Zealanders said "stuff your extremely expensive and costly precautionary principle and took to the streets to fight proposals for a batch of (entirely pointless - except to give governments a windfall) litany of Kyoto taxes. Good for them!

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