Two items I found on the internet today pretty much confirm what most on the right have thought all along: the Green movement is about state power and the destruction of individual voluntary decisions about our lives.

The first was the announcement by the EPA that they have declared the substance all of us exhale after every breath to be poison and, therefore, regulatable. “To hell with Congress, to hell with voters and to hell with Copenhagen,” the bureaucrats say. “We’re going to do this anyway.”

The second is this incredible assertion by Chesapeake Climate Action’s Mike Tidwell in The Washington Post:

But surveys show that very few people are willing to make significant voluntary changes, and those of us who do create the false impression of mass progress as the media hypes our actions.

Instead, most people want carbon reductions to be mandated by laws that will allow us to share both the responsibilities and the benefits of change. Ours is a nation of laws; if we want to alter our practices in a deep and lasting way, this is where we must start. After years of delay and denial and green half-measures, we must legislate a stop to the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.