Today's alarmist proposition: Cough up your hard-earned money for "Mother Nature", or trace amounts of invisible gas will cause aliens to kill us all

Carbon fees: A way to recoup damage done to nature - baltimoresun.com

The carbon fee is not for the government, it is a payback to Mother Nature herself for the rape, burning and slow destruction of our environment that we have been doing for centuries (at no cost) and for which we show no signs of abating.