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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 at 15:55 | Comments (19) | Trackback (1)

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