The U.S. government, through the Environmental Protection Agency, is declaring open season on life itself. Boiled down to its most fundamental essence, that's the real meaning of the EPA's declaration of "greenhouse gases" as a danger to public health.

The chief greenhouse gas to be regulated by the EPA as a public danger is carbon dioxide. "The accumulation of CO2 … in the atmosphere can lead to hotter, longer heat waves that threaten the health of the sick, the poor, the elderly…" warned EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson during the press conference announcing the agency's findings.

That should send a chill up and down the spine of every living person. CO2 is simply a byproduct of life itself. When a bureaucrat like Jackson announces that the government is going to regulate CO2, the intent is to say that life itself will be regulated. Even worse, when bureaucrats say that CO2 is a threat to public health, what they are really saying is that life itself is a threat.

This is not alarmism, but simply a fact. President Obama has pledged to reduce emissions by 83 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, proving, columnist George Will says, that he understands "the histrionics required in climate-change debates." But lets take Obama at his word. What would it mean to reduce carbon emissions that much?

2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million Americans in 2050, so Obama's promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen.

He's right: with that level of population, an 83 percent reduction below 2005 levels is impossible, unless we get rid of some hundreds of millions of useless breathers.

This is not to say that the developed nations of the world under UN guided climate policies are going to engage in outright genocide to reduce the world's population. It won't happen that way. It will happen through slow strangulation. And the EPA announcement points the way forward.

Governments around the world will begin enacting increasingly restrictive policies regulating economic behavior. This will lead to scarcity — scarcity of fuels, scarcity of food, scarcity of housing, scarcity of medicine. Increasing scarcity will be reflected in rising prices. Even Obama has said so, admitting that under his plan for a cap and trade system, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

Electricity rates aren't the only things that will skyrocket. Agriculture will become much more costly so food prices will dramatically increase. Carbon based fuels, which power our entire industrial economy, will become much, much more expensive, and that will impact much more than just the cost of gasoline at the pump. Every manufactured product, from toasters to airplanes, will increase in price.

Again, the increasing prices that we can expect are a measure of increasing scarcity. At the bottom line, this has a human impact. Along with rising prices and increasing scarcity will come increasing poverty, worldwide. Developing nations with already high rates of poverty will be hardest hit. With decreased access to food, housing, water and the other necessities of life, there will come increasing rates of malnourishment and disease. People will die.

No matter, to global warming extremists, they're just useless breathers anyway.

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