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2007-09-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

"Give up your SUV!" and other nauseating hypocrisy

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Posted by Mike 2007-09-03 08:56|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 You missed the best part of the article (IMHO):

Which finally gets around to my point: Our leaders and media pundits aren't panicking about global warming and touting the bliss of going green because they're actually worried about the future of the planet. They're making a fuss because they think global warming is going to affect them. Why, if New York City turns into Venice and LA dries up and Aspen melts, where are we going to host our gala save-the-earth benefit dinners? Why, I could even lose two or three of my six homes!

How do I know this is true? Because, thus far at least, global warming is -- as Al Gore actually gets right -- inconvenient, not a true problem. Sure, it's been a hot summer. Maybe hotter than usual. It might get a little worse, or it might not. We live on a geologically and atmospherically active planet; temperature variations are the norm. Sorry, Boomers: It's not always going to be 75 and sunny the way it was that glorious day at Woodstock. Meantime, turn up the air con a bit, or go for a swim. You're not going to die.

The thing is, while the hysterics are fretting about the "horrors" of global warming and the plight of poor little Knut, more than one million people (most of them women and children) are dying every single year -- today, right now -- of malaria. That's a problem we can fix, easily, inexpensively. A few strategic squirts of DDT, some smartly dispensed prophylactic medicines, and we could save the lives of more than one million people every single year almost overnight.

Does anybody care? Are they making movies and books about the malaria crisis? No, malaria is over there, not here. Right now, we've all got to focus on getting green and making everybody give up their SUVs so we don't burn up our planet. After all, it's a pretty long walk from the bullet-proof Suburban to the GIV. And I hate to sweat.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-09-03 12:15|| 2007-09-03 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 A few strategic squirts of DDT, some smartly dispensed prophylactic medicines, and we could save the lives of more than one million people every single year almost overnight.

I don't think saving lives is on the Green agenda, though. Green is the new Red.

Posted by eLarson 2007-09-03 15:34|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-09-03 15:34|| Front Page Top

#3 eLarson, of course saving lives is not on their agenda. Rather the opposite, they would love to see a reduction of entire earth population to 500 million based on their "sustainability" formulas--with a ratio of greens (the leading elite as they put it, replace "leading" with "ruling" to get the correct meaning) to non-greens about 1 to 20 (transl: 20 slaves toiling for each green).

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-03 15:55|| 2007-09-03 15:55|| Front Page Top

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