The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a very well-funded organisation dedicated to the destruction of collective government, taxation, trades unions, regulation and the environmental movement (you can probably guess which industries fund them).
As I've mentioned before, 98% of climate scientists agree that climate change is caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide imbalances (i.e. since the industrial revolution, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen inexorably, causing global warming).
The CEI has a very different take - one that draws on the discourses of American individualism, the family and all the other touchstones of the American right, rather than on… er… science. They're a prime example of what happens when ideology trumps reality.
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Yes, America's discourse of individualism is still going strong, it's part of their make up, emanating from the civil war. Its also why Obama's had all this grief with the healthcare bill, and why if you say to them 'I'm a socialist' they'll react as if you've just said 'I'm going to rape and torture all your children'
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