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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26166)12/2/2009 7:33:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
"Allow"? What a peculiar use of english. <TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian province of Ontario took steps toward a cap and trade program on Tuesday that will allow the country's manufacturing heartland to cut industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. >

The correct word is "force", not "allow". Allow implies that the people want to but are not permitted or enabled to do something. Force implies that if they don't do it, they'll be in very big trouble so they had better do it, or else.

That's the sort of usage which demonstrates the malevolence and style of thinking hidden by the Greenhouse Effecters and now exposed directly rather than by implication from such usage and various actions. It's called dishonesty. Dishonest in one thing, they'll be dishonest in others.

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