Germany is stepping up to the Skeptic plate now in attacking Carbon Tariffs as eco-imperialism in the French plan for taxing items moved across political boundaries.

From Reuters.com:

Germany called a French idea to slap “carbon tariffs” on products from countries that are not trying to cut greenhouse gases a form of “eco-imperialism” and a direct violation of WTO rules.

The issue of greenhouse tariffs has met bitter opposition from developing countries such as China and India, who count on the developed world to buy their exports as they build their economies in the face of the worst financial crisis in decades.

Matthias Machnig, Germany’s State Secretary for the Environment, told a news briefing on Friday that a French push for Europe to impose carbon tariffs on imports from countries that flout rules on carbon emissions would send the wrong signal to the international community.
“There are two problems — the WTO (World Trade Organization), and the signal would be that this is a new form of eco-imperialism,” Machnig said.

“We are closing our markets for their products, and I don’t think this is a very helpful signal for the international negotiations.”

This comes on the heels of India last week rejecting the “key scientific findings on global warming” from the IPCC and helps highlight how not only people, but nations seam to be waking up from this kook-aid induced acid trip of eco-whoring.

I’m glad Germany is starting to figure it out, as most of Europe is ripe for the picking by the environmentalists.  Most with a Socialist mindset are more apt to fall for this crap, as all you need to tell them is that “it will help the future.” 

This misinformed desire to “help” is usually backed up with talk of taxing or punishing people who they deam to be “out of line”.

In America I have talked to many people who would associate themselves as “eco-conscious” as they say that there should be $2.00-$4.00 tax on each gallon of gasoline to push people away from using it.  These same people, under the guise of being “Socially liberal but fiscally conservative” are also the ones who demand larger government in every way possible for most “solutions” to what are conceived as large problems.

Most of the solutions pushed by nations today are no different.  They bost the needs for Larger government, more taxes, and less power by the individual to help push the public away from “hurting the planet” in the long run.  And when I say long run, their threats of “Act now or forever hold your peace” time tables are so far out, there is no way a generation will keep on topic long enough to know if the “fix” actually addressed anything at all.

But then again, when they look at Carbon Dioxide as the only thing affecting the climate (and miss the giant yellow star in our sky), and only propose taxes as a way to fix it, its pretty clear how single minded most Watermelons are.

Watermelons.  That fits nicely.

Green on the outside, Red to the core.