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Monday, November 19. 2007

If you really believe in anthropogenic global warming...

Re-posted from Feb, 2007

If you believe in a man-made global warming crisis, you:

1. Will not fly on airplanes
2. Will live close enough to work to walk or bike
3. Will turn off your electric power - and no oil lamps. No computers - they are energy sponges.
4. Will cease to mow your lawn
5. Will heat your home with solar power, or, better yet, not at all. It takes a lot of energy to create those solar panels
7. Will give up eating beef
8. Will junk your cars, tractors, lawn-mowers, boats, chain saws, etc.
9. Will wear no synthetics, or clothing requiring electric power to produce
10. Will grow all of your own food so it doesn't have to be trucked to your supermarket

If you do not do those things, then I won't believe that you are genuinely concerned, and will not take you seriously. Show me what to do - don't tell me what to do. Government and the UN first, please. Greenies second.

Just don't tell me that you are going to continue to enjoy these luxuries until the government forces you not to. Show leadership and individual responsibility. No pseudo-virtuous tokenism, please. Carbon credits? Gimme a break.

(Personally, I agree with Stephen Harper that the climate hysteria is no more than a socialist/luddite scheme.)

Update. An Al Gore True Believer said this to me yesterday: "I'm not the problem. Society is the problem." This person sells real estate and drives a big Mercedes all day long in his job in our Connecticut exurbia. "Society"? Who dat bad man? And what is his phone number?

Image: Non-hypocritical global warming fans in Vermont wear no factory clothing, inhabit caves, and hunt for food in the woods, which they eat raw so as not to create CO2 and other pollution with campfires. Vermont environmentalists complain that they are depleting the forests of roots and tubers, scaring the deer, and eating all of the skunks and raccoons. And crapping all over the place.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, Politics at 15:55 | Comments (19) | Trackback (1)

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Yes,
And the developing Chinese and Indian populations, numbering in the billions will immediately stop all forward progress, eschew using coal, strip mining the earth, massive deforrestration and water pollution.
Que the Michael Jackson.
"WE ARE THE WORLD, WE ARE THE CHILDREN...yada,yada yada."

There will be an insert in your IRS kit telling you what to do. Succinctly each block will have a "block supervisor" who will "aid" you in implimenting the New World Order.

The only solution is to move to Texas and rally around the spirit of 1836!!!!
#1 Habu on 2007-02-01 16:32 (Reply)
Barrister - completely agree. I have already adopted this view.
#2 BD on 2007-02-01 18:14 (Reply)
no no no, move to Montana, and join the spirit of "WD-40 or Fight!"
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-02-01 18:48 (Reply)
Green Goblins!

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1936510,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=16
#4 buddy larsen on 2007-02-01 18:51 (Reply)
"54-40 or Fight!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_boundary_dispute
#5 buddy larsen on 2007-02-01 18:55 (Reply)
Al Gore etc. can fly anywhere he wants and drive with a caravan of SUVs because he (or someone in his organization) buys the carbon credits to cover it on the Chicago or the London exchange. And I think the credits are pretty cheap right now too. It is just very hard to imagine they will ever have any true commodity value but hey, the 'market' is open.
#6 Patina on 2007-02-01 21:39 (Reply)
Al Gore will win the Nobel Prize this year, and an Oscar, for his junk scare-mongering "work". So much for Nobel, and Oscar. What, they couldn't give the Nobel to Arafat again?
#7 buddy larsen on 2007-02-01 23:43 (Reply)
just glanced at this DVD yesterday at the local
home theater supply warehouse (video store):

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/


__________________________

there was a yank reviewer who posted a pretty thourough debunking of the director's premise and arrangement of the facts surrounding the GM EV's demise.

the featured review is now by a guy from Denmark.

both mention that hybrid technology is more viable than straight electric.

_________________________
...but look at that cast!!!

Mel Gibson
Phyllis Diller
Tom Hanks
*Martin Sheen*(ugh)
et al....

straight to DVD looks like.
#8 gumshoe on 2007-02-02 00:47 (Reply)
I was covinced by David Cameron when he flew off to visit a melting glacier in a private jet. He really cares.
#9 NJSoldier on 2007-02-02 10:01 (Reply)
Prince Charles, on his recent trip to USA to receive a green award from Al Gore, eschewed a private plane for green reasons, instead renting the entire first-class section (60 seats) of a commercial airliner, for his 20 (yes, 20) person entourage.

And there you have the green movement, perfectly in symbol, as the royals and the greens both are wont to be.
#10 Elliot "Loch" Ness on 2007-02-02 18:40 (Reply)
I already comply with #1, #2, #4 and partly #10. Which soothes my conscience enough for one day.
#11 bob on 2007-11-18 15:08 (Reply)
Spotch?

Dat y'all Spotch?
#12 Leag on 2007-11-18 15:13 (Reply)
When China and India submit to all that Kyoto stuff I will then quit lighting the wood stove on burn ban days.

And when the developers a couple hills over from me quit clear-cutting hundreds of acres I will obtain the expensive permits the county requires to cut down the occasional dangerous tree on my own property.
#13 commander clopfelter on 2007-11-19 16:09 (Reply)
Hey, you can mow your lawn just fine. Scything happens to be my favorite hobby in the summer.

Every day go out and cut a couple of 10' wide swaths, gather up the clippings and take them to the mulch pile out in the back woods. There's nothing like it.

In a couple weeks you've finished off your acre of grass and can start over. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

http://home.att.net/~rhhardinc/scythe001.jpg piling in cart. That's the scythe out by the power pole. The thing against the cart is a hay fork.

Of course if you don't like getting out of the house, it's likely to be a drag.

An ordinary push mower would work too but not on long grass.
#14 Ron Hardin (Link) on 2007-11-19 16:12 (Reply)
Glenn Reynolds summary is apropos here: I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who tell me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis.
#15 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2007-11-19 17:14 (Reply)
While I do believe that the mass hysteria of global warming is taking it a bit far, I must say that I think everyone should still try to do what small things are possible in our modern world. Simple things can save small amounts of energy, which add up over time. Turn off the lights when you are not using. Don't run the sink the entire time you are washing your hands or brushing your teeth. If you live close enough to the store to walk, do so. I don't expect a revolution of green living to sweep across our country or any other country for that matter, but I do think that if enough people do the small things, they will add up. I live in Georgia where we are under level 4 drought restrictions. It is predicted that the reservoir that N. Georgia draws most of its water from will be gone by the end of December. I cannot say if this is due to global warming or not, but everywhere we are seeing efforts to conserve water. I do suspect that it is now because people are being fined for over usage, but perhaps if people had been more careful to begin with we would not be down to receiving fines for using too much water. Unfortunately I think that many people do not feel the impact of such things until it hits their wallet.
#16 Anonymous on 2007-11-19 17:41 (Reply)
Save the world, turn out the neon in Vegas, and all the night parking lights in all the malls across America, land of shoppers.

As far as the lawns go, just hit it with Round-Up a couple times next summer, you're in like Flint for three or four years. I did.
#17 bob on 2007-11-19 18:40 (Reply)
While I share your scepticism, that's a little like saying if you really believe in Jesus you'll give all your worldly posessions to the poor. We're all sinners.
#18 linda skountzos on 2007-11-20 09:28 (Reply)
Give all my worldly possessions to the poor? Then I'd be poor.

Are people who are not Christians sinners, too? How do we convince them of that?
#19 Meta on 2007-11-21 11:57 (Reply)

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