Environmentalism in recent years has departed the bounds of reality and marched into a doomsday prognostication. Remember the 1960s when DDT, over-population and saving the rainforests were the darlings of environmentalists? We were supposed to be out of life support by 2000. It didn’t happen but that didn’t keep the whole idea of environmentalism from morphing into a wholesale cottage industry — foisting a veil of impending doom and scaring the bejeebers out of little children and many adults.
Greens can’t win even when they win. Remember how they gloated over getting CFC’s banned? Well, it turns out the alternative HFC’s cause more damage that the Freon they killed. Oops.
It is tempting to write off the ELF as a small, crazed group of dreadlock-sporting crusties that spout the kind of eco-nonsense most of us find offensive. Tempting, but wrong. In truth, the idea that humans are a fundamentally destructive presence on Earth, a carbuncle or itchy sore, is now widespread, even respectable and fashionable. The ELF can be seen as a crude physical manifestation of the humanity-baiting that informs much of mainstream environmentalism and contemporary thought.
An English police officer took an eco-terrorist by the throat. The press is upset, but catch-and-release is the rule so no hippies were harmed in the making of this picture.
A mad scientist cannot understand why people objected to his plans to geoengineer the planet. Considering the rule of unintended consequences that constantly trip the hippies up, it’s easy to see why allowing moonbats to throw reflective particles into the upper atmosphere might have folks worried.
what could possibly go wrong?
Some gratuitous lefty-bashing, the global warming bit is in point 5.
Polar bears, the poster-species for the global warming movement, get more alarmist coverage. A certain Mr. Nelson has a few thoughts on that.
Here’s a tale of modern America. Two failed businesses that took government cash to recover then use some of that cash to lobby for a bill that will make their products either obsolete or unaffordable; and they broke the law to do it.
Regular readers will know that I have little time for hippies. What you may not know is that the one thing worse than a hippie is a naked hippie. ‘Naturists’ tout the green value of going without clothing. No mention of the psychological cost to the rest of us being, ahem, exposed to hippie junk.
the horror, the horror
Now we know why the science is settled. The EPA self-censored a report that was less than supportive of the global warming myth. Watts has more.
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"It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer."
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
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