HISTORY REPEATS

One of the articles in the January 2008 issue of Climate Change:

Parallels in reactionary argumentation in the US congressional debates on the abolition of slavery and the Kyoto Protocol

No, your eyes do not deceive you; here's an excerpt from the abstract:

This article explores similarities between the rationalisation of slavery in the abolition debates and the rationalisation of ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases in the US congressional debates on the Kyoto Protocol.

My head hurts.