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Wednesday, September 5. 2007

Just wondering

If the real problem with Mother Earth is people, and if global warming will kill us all off, then why aren't the Greenies in favor of some global warming for a while to effect that worthy goal?
Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 15:58 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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The real problem is that Global Warmiing(tm) will kill off more deserving species as well as humans. A preferred solution would be if a disease arose that killed off most of the humans selectively, leaving the Greeners and enough of an infrastructure to serve their needs and wants without the Greeners being required to figure out how to do it themselves.

The Wicked need to be smitten and the Good exalted, but in such a way as to reduce the carbon footprint overall.
#1 TomP on 2007-09-05 16:38 (Reply)
Hoho. Now I see. Get rid of the people, but not the Polar Bears.
#1.1 BD on 2007-09-05 17:20 (Reply)
First your premise is well in dispute.

Secondly diseases will do their job, but I'm not sure they can differentiate between Greeners and say a Playboy Centerfold, or a Quaker.

Thirdly , if things get real bad Greeners won't stand a chance against a heavily armed mean SOB like me.

So far as I can tell God has allowed mankind to run amok forever. I do believe he'll have the last word however.

But golly don't it feel good to get that out of your system.
#1.2 Habu on 2007-09-05 17:22 (Reply)
James Taranto in today's Opinion Journal:

Brendan O'Neill of the online magazine Spiked calls our attention to an astonishing report that appeared last week in London's Times. You thought this "carbon offset" business was a scam? It turns out it's even worse, as O'Neill explains:

In [the Times article] it was revealed that the leader of the UK Conservative Party, David Cameron, offsets his carbon emissions by effectively keeping brown people in a state of bondage. Whenever he takes a flight to some foreign destination, Cameron donates to a carbon-offsetting company that encourages people in the developing world to ditch modern methods of farming in favour of using their more eco-friendly manpower to plough the land. So Cameron can fly around the world with a guilt-free conscience on the basis that, thousands of miles away, Indian villagers, bent over double, are working by hand rather than using machines that emit carbon.

Welcome to the era of eco-enslavement.

The details of this carbon-offsetting scheme are disturbing. Cameron offsets his flights by donating to Climate Care. The latest wheeze of this carbon-offsetting company is to provide "treadle pumps" to poor rural families in India so that they can get water on to their land without having to use polluting diesel power. Made from bamboo, plastic and steel, the treadle pumps work like "step machines in a gym," according to some reports, where poor family members step on the pedals for hours in order to draw up groundwater which is used to irrigate farmland. These pumps were abolished in British prisons a century ago. It seems that what was considered an unacceptable form of punishment for British criminals in the past is looked upon as a positive eco-alternative to machinery for Indian peasants today.

What might once have been referred to as "back-breaking labour" is now spun as "human energy."

What's more, this is all done so that Cameron can avoid making changes in his own lifestyle, which we are supposed to believe is destroying the planet. Global-warmism is not just some harmless enthusiasm; it can be despicable and inhuman.
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-09-05 20:00 (Reply)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/

(scroll 60% to "Trickle-Down Ecology")
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-09-05 20:06 (Reply)

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