As exposed by Michael Crichton's novel, State of Fear, the 'green movement' (endorsed by Al Gore and the EPA) is based on bogus science and uses chicanery, greed, and fear to obtain its goals. The Democrat party, embracing Marxist socialism, is using the fear generated by the green movement to tax and regulate the American electorate into oblivion. Socialist governments cannot exist without parasitically devouring the wealth of the productive.