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Home Front: Culture Wars
An Open Letter to Greta Thunberg
2019-11-13
h/t Instapundit
[FrontPage] ...Yes, we have betrayed you: by capitulating the world of leadership to bored, attention-deficit children who spout bromides, platitudes and slogans that a rudderless and morally relativistic culture accepts because a significant number of its denizens have become intellectually bankrupt and morally lazy.

The logical endpoint of your ecological vision would see us living in primeval conditions eking out an existence in jungle swamps in which we would regard poisonous snakes and man-eating tigers as our moral equals. We would have to adapt ourselves to nature rather than adapt nature to meet our needs, like all members of civilized civilizations do. Your vision would see us foraging for mushrooms and plants without knowing which were inimical to our digestive systems. Under your system we would swelter from heat, die from rampant plagues and starvation because there will be no air-conditioning units, no sophisticated plumbing and irrigations and sewer systems, no anti-bacterial soap made from animal matter, no pesticides and chemicals to sanitize our food and drinking supplies: just one primordial swamp of human putrefaction.
IMO, it's all our fault for giving our educational into the hands of pretend intellectuals.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#9  We (sometimes) find the ideas of 16yo girls entertaining, but we usually act upon the ideas of experienced adults.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-11-13 22:26  

#8  Motherf------ Nature.
She's a bitch that Civilization seeks to tame.

This idiot-(non)savant and her comrades in stupidity are reversing the course of civilization, of human mastery of nature, of the achievements of Galileo and Newton and Einstein.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-13 21:46  

#7  Go easy on her. After crossing the Atlantic in late November, she might have different ideas about Mother Nature.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-11-13 21:04  

#6  I can read, and I recommend RTWT.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-11-13 15:23  

#5  can she read??
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-11-13 10:15  

#4  pdf of book mentioned above appears to exist at (Roosky site, probably NSFW) en dot ookfibay dot etnay
Posted by: Snuck Spusotch3732   2019-11-13 05:46  

#3  I think Trump, who saw hundreds of enterprising hopefuls in his business and Apprentice days, sized her up just right. When he called her a 'happy child', he meant to define her condescendingly as the attention hungry young con artist she is.

In short, she's not a flake. She's a fake.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-13 05:14  

#2  It's OK Mike - there's China, India, Russia etc...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-11-13 05:10  

#1  ...Wanna see the ultimate result of what Pippi Longface wants? Try and find a copy of D. Keith Mano's The Bridge:

"...Whereas it has been ascertained irrefutably by the Council's Emergency Committee on Respiration that the process of breathing has and will continue to destroy and maim innumerable forms of microscopic biological life, we of the Council, convened in full, have decided that man in good conscience can no longer permit this wanton destruction of our fellow creatures, whose right to exist is fully as great as ours. It is therefore decreed that men, in spontaneous free will and contrition, voluntarily accede to the termination of their species. . . It is hoped bretheren, that you will donate your physical bodies to the earth in such a manner that the heinous crimes of murder and pollution committed by our race throughout history may in some small way find redress."

And it gets much, much better from there. The world of The Bridge makes the world in the Instapundit quote look like Vegas on a Friday night.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-11-13 05:01