Obama: Traitor to Environmentalism?

With the global economy now spiraling down to the depths of severe recession, and with manufacturing and other industrial activity declining, surely the West is now on the right track to meet our Kyoto goals and permanently reduce our national carbon footprints! Environmentalists rejoice!

After all, it was Obama himself who once decried the criminal fact that although Americans constitute only 4% of the global population, we consume 25% of the earth's resources. Well voila! We're now finally on the path to correcting that abomination!

But what is this? Obama is now spending trillions of dollars with the hope of stimulating economic growth? Doesn't he realize that by doing so, we'll only reverse our environmental gains and return to our previous evil ways of mass consumption?

Don't worry. Even if our economy rebounds to pre-September 2008 levels, Obama will institute his promised carbon cap and trade system. That should steer us toward a greener future. However, it'll raise your utility bills by 15-30%. It will cost the federal government up to $1.9 trillion, just for the programs first 8 years (tax increase, anyone?). Lastly, cap and trade will cost up to 2.3 million jobs by 2015.

I suppose this is the change we all wanted...