The New York Times reported yesterday that a group of eminent scientists have determined that the human contribution to global warming is "unequivocal". Their solution is a return to the level of greenhouse gases that existed in the atmosphere before 1750 or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Let's consider the implications of this thinking, shall we?
Where, in recent history, have men with small minds wanted to take a great leap backwards into a simpler agricultural period in their nation's history? If you guessed Kampuchea, you would be right. And what was the name of the kindly ruler of Kampuchea during this period? Yes, that's correct, Pol Pot. For our guests who are unfamiliar with this aspect of Southeast Asian history please allow me to summarize. Threatened by the expansion of Western Capitalism to Southeast Asia, Mr. Pot gathered a number of his followers in the jungles of what was then called Cambodia and created a movement called the Khmer Rouge. 
The goal of the Khmer Rouge was to overthrow the regime of Prince Sianhouk and return Cambodia to a less corrupt, simpler age of peasant farming. So, over the course of several years, the Khmer Rouge insurgents overthrew Prince Sianhouk and began the implementation of their new government. The first step was to move all of the citizens away from the corrupting environment of the cities and modernity and relocate them to the purity of the countryside. Anyone who asked a question or protested was summarily executed. Those deemed unable to be sufficiently productive (the very young, old, and infirm) were executed. The people who were viewed as being a threat to the new order: business people, religious leaders, teachers, all executed. The purest members of the new society were the untainted people who lived deep in the countryside before the revolution. Anyone else was suspect and individual comrades were rewarded for informing on one another. To erase all memory of the "Old Cambodia", the kindly leader, Pol Pot, reset the clock to year Zero to mark the beginning of a new era of Kampuchean peace and prosperity.
If you choose to ignore the millions of dead bodies lying about.
Be careful of the Year Zero type of thinking being trumpeted by the environmental left, little good can come of it.
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