EPA's take on global warming

The United States fund and operate one of the finest environmental protection agency on Earth, the EPA.

Although most of the information provided on their web site appears to be right on the money regarding the many alarming global warming signs, there appears to be some kind of virtual brick wall between their common sense, which is mostly empirical knowledge, and Washington's political leaders.

For instance, this excerpt hits the nail right on the head:

"For over the past 200 years, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, and deforestation have caused the concentrations of heat-trapping "greenhouse gases" to increase significantly in our atmosphere.

These gases prevent heat from escaping to space, somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse."

Now, that's the whole "greenhouse gases 101" course boiled down to human-readable format. Any monkey with half a brain would probably get with the program to change our polluting ways, thus avoiding a seemingly inevitable and tragic fate but no, political leaders aren't that smart... or willing to listen.

You see, the more "stuff" gets produced, whatever the greenhouse gases cost for the environment are, the more money get shuffled around and those on the receiving end of this financial dance find no comfort in saving a tree if they lose that new luxury car in their driveway. As such, the only real chance for a change comes from "we" the people or, should I say, the poor people -- the ones that won't have enough dough to buy their ticket to embark on the rocket ship pointed towards "Earth 2.0" when this one comes to a boiling or freezing end.

The world population has more than doubled over the course of the last 50 years so we better get our act straight before other nations, namely China and India, looking to emulate our relatively lavish lifestyle, spoil the planet by legitimately trying to get their share of the fun.

The EPA has voiced many wise words, will any politician care to listen?