It is now official: every single American is a polluter–24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Impossible? The Environmental Protection Agency has determined that carbon dioxide is a “toxic substance,” an “endangerment” to public health and welfare, and must be “regulated” by that agency.

Carbon dioxide is what every human being exhales when they breathe.

Thus, every one of us is an environmental time bomb, contributing to the inexorable destruction of the planet. But it gets even “better” than that when certain animals are brought into the discussion: cow and sheep flatulence, for example, contain methane gas, which is also contributing to the earth’s demise.

Would it be indelicate to suggest the EPA has both ends covered?

Unfortunately, the abject stupidity of such findings by the intensely annoying do-gooders who come up with them is the good news. The bad news is that the EPA has unprecedented amounts of power courtesy of a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, using the Clean Air Act as a club to “draw up regulations governing greenhouse-gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, refineries, chemical plants, cement firms, vehicles and any other emitting sectors.” Translation: now that CO2 is defined as a “greenhouse gas,” the EPA can literally regulate every “emitting sector” of it.

That means you–and everything you do.

This is totalitarianism–period. And make no mistake: it is the vehicle by which the American left, in cahoots with their worldwide soul-mates, will attempt to undertake the greatest power grab in the history of the world.

Many ill-informed Americans are unaware that any treaty signed by an American president–say, for example, an economy-killing global warming document emerging from the confab in Copenhagen–must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate in order to become the law of the land. The last attempt to ratify an environmental treaty was the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The Senate did much better than a two-thirds vote.

It was 95-0–against committing economic suicide to “save the planet.”

The solution for overcoming such an obvious roadblock to the global governance dreams of Barack Obama, et al? Bypass the Senate completely and use the EPA as the vehicle for the obliteration of our democratic republic. Call a treaty an “agreement” and declare that ratification is completely unnecessary.

It is no secret that much of the American left has little respect for the laws of our nation, especially those that conflict with their “superior” wisdom. But one has to wonder how far this thuggish administration can sail into uncharted territory before even the most liberal Senators realize they’re being had along with the rest of us.

It is one thing to vote in favor of such environmental nonsense. It is quite another if it becomes apparent that you get no vote at all.

The enviro-jackboots claim the planet has reached a “tipping point.” They’re absolutely correct, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned: Americans who still believe in national sovereignty and Constitutional government will not be marched lockstep into a world run by global-socialist tyrants.

What was one of the principle causes of the American Revolution? No taxation without representation. The circus in Copenhagen is all about an agreement by which the United States and other developed nations “compensate” lesser nations for our energy “sins,” using the United Nations as the “middleman.”

Such will occur absent any input from the American public, and if it plays out as expected, the Senate. In short, the EPA will be running the country, which in turn will be bound by U.N.–approved mandates.

Are you ready to rumble yet?

atahlert@comcast.net

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