Posted by
Chestertonrules on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:05:50 PM
In May 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Hobgoblin Proliferation Reduction(HGPR) presented a report - by its Working Group III - which makes a number of recommendations on hobgoblin mitigation, including the use of HG minimizing technologies, reforms in taxes and market structures to support economies dependent on sugar beet production, and further research into this phenomenon.
"Most economists believe a sugar beet tax(Note: sugar beets are now assumed to be the primary source of sustenance for the burgeoning HG population, according to former US Vice President, Al Gore) would be a superior policy alternative to a ban on sugar beet production", say Kenneth P. Green, Steven F. Hayward and Kevin A. Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.
"There is now an almost unanimous consensus among scientists that Hobgoblins are real, they are multiplying, and they present a real threat to the future of mankind. We must balance our desire for sweets with our need to save the planet" according to Lester R. Brown of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
Alarmingly, reports of children being harmed or even killed by hobgoblins are on the rise. "While it is often difficult to verify these claims, we can't wait forever before taking positive steps for our protection." says Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Hobgoblin Eradication.
He continued, "Do we want to have to tell our grandchildren some day that we knew about hobgoblins, but did nothing?"