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Earth: An environmental writer mainstreams an idea floating around the green fringe — save the earth by population control and give carbon credits to one-child families. Are we threatened by the patter of little carbon footprints?

It's long been a mantra on the left that people are a plague on the earth, ravaging its surface for food and resources, polluting its atmosphere and endangering its species. Now we are endangering its very climate to the point of extinction. Even the result of our breathing — carbon dioxide — has been declared by the EPA to be a dangerous pollutant.

Treaties like Kyoto and the upcoming economic suicide pact to be forged in Copenhagen have focused on the instruments and byproducts of our civilization. Now the focus is shifting increasingly to the people who built it.

I get my investment advice from Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy | Mike Madden - Salon News

Want to make money off of right-wing paranoia?
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Flip that Maldives beach house! It's virtually gospel among some conservatives that climate change is a myth, a sham used to force a cap-and-trade system onto the U.S. economy in order to suffocate it. So here's your chance to make a quick buck in real estate. Island nations are likely to be the first ones submerged when -- as climate change scientists warn -- sea levels rise because of global warming. The Maldives recently held a cabinet meeting underwater, in order to call attention to the problem. But since Beck's audience doesn't believe any of that climate change stuff, they should be willing to pay inflated prices to put their vacation homes in the danger zone. Buy low, sell high -- it's the first rule in investing.

If you don't fear the bubbles in your Diet Pepsi, does that make you a paranoid right-winger?

If you choose not to buy property in the Maldives, does that mean you secretly fear carbon dioxide?