Wanted: world environmental leader (Barf Alert)

MarketWatch ^ | 4/6/2008 | Thomas Kostigen

[EBH]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- To save the world, we need a leader who will make a stand as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did during World War II and force change upon us. That pretty much sums up the conclusions of many of the world's best thinkers who gathered last week at the Aspen Environment Forum. The meeting, held over the course of three days, included talks and discussions with E.O. Wilson, the eminent biologist; Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes; Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute; and a host of scientists and leaders from government, the private sector and nonprofit organizations. "Saving civilization is not a spectator sport," Brown says. He says we must enact change for a better world now and lays out his thesis in a new book, "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization."

[EBH]

Amazing, just amazing ...

[irishtenor]

OOH, OOH, I’ll do it! What’s it pay?

[sageb1]

Watch Ahmadinejad step up to the plate.

[infantrywhooah]

A convention of nothing but mouth breathing, environmental activist, moonbats. If they had their way the human race would cease to exist in order to save the planet.

[bolobaby]

That pretty much sums up the conclusions of many of the world's best thinkers biggest chicken littles who gathered last week at the Aspen Environment Forum.

Fixed.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

["To save the world, we need a leader who will make a stand as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did during World War II and force change upon us."]

Like the leadership the Germans elected 1933...

[pacpam]

Who says FDR was the end all, be all. He forced the first steps toward socialism upon us, disguised as ‘help’.

[Bushbacker1]

What? Is AlGore already being replaced?

[RWB Patriot]

“If we can stand to wage war in Iraq and spend trillions on that then why can’t we declare a war on those and that which is destroying the environment and spend trillions defending it? (By the way, estimates to fix environmental problems amount to $400 billion, only one-quarter of which would be the U.S. share — a number we could surely afford.)”

The war in Iraq was a war to spread freedom. Any war in the name of the environment would be a war to spread government control, increase taxes, shred soveriegnty, and kill anyone who doesn’t follow the environwhacko belief 110% (Yes, the environwhackos are that fanatical and that intolerant)

And your $400 billion dollar price tage doesn’t take into account the costs that are measured in dollars, like individual freedom.

[Delta 21]

No Kidding! I thought he was doing one hell of a job.

He is one of our best plants, in more ways than one!

[APFel]

(By the way, estimates to fix environmental problems amount to $400 billion, only one-quarter of which would be the U.S. share — a number we could surely afford.)”

But what about the other make-believe problems that we need to throw money at? Personally, I think the budget to prevent invasion from the land of marrow-sucking troll people needs to be increased.

APf

[xjcsa]

What? Is AlGore already being replaced?

I think AlGore is the "leader" they're talking about.

[Need4Truth]

“Even if the predictions for climate change are 99% wrong ... then the planet is in crisis.”

wow, what logic.

[RightWhale]

the conclusions of many of the world's best thinkers

The world's best thinkers know better than to come to conclusions and then say what they conclude. Once you do that, you know, you're done, which isn't all that bad since you can then go play bridge with the retired folks.

[Hunton Peck]

Fascism never really dies. It just keeps reinventing itself.

[Pontiac]

To save the world, we need a leader who will make a stand as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did during World War II and force change upon us.

I could have sworn it was Hero Hito that force change upon us in WW II.

FDR did everything he could to keep us out of the war.

But like you said the real change he forced on the US was socialism. Just what the country need to prolong the Depression.

[MtnClimber]

The Goracle is our savior. He will invent a machine that will convert all humans to baby gay whales to save the planet.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“What we were doing in this country were some of
the things that were being done in Russia and even
some of the things that were being done under
Hitler in Germany. But we were doing them in an
orderly way.”

— President Franklin D. Roosevelt

[alarm rider]

My bet is if that happened, the other people not agreeing would be looking for a leader also, and possibly not looking for Mr. Sensitivity.

[21twelve]

My old man couldn’t stand FDR (or JFK for that matter) as a youth I couldn’t understand that. (What? FDR won the war, and who didn’t love JFK?) Too bad that now that I know more about them, my old man (WW II vet) isn’t around to talk to.

[RightWhale]

we were doing them in an orderly way.”

Right. Until the USSC declared them unconstitutional. Some of them.

[chris_bdba]

Guess they didn’t get the memo about how the planet has been cooling since 1998?

[kcvl]

he is an adviser to The Borgen Project, a global nonprofit organization involved in poverty awareness and a member of the Rainforest Action Network.

he regularly works with CERES (corporate environmental responsibility), Coop America, Liberty Hill, The Social Investment Forum, and other organizations that aim to shift social and environmental awareness through changes in habits and policies. He was tapped in 2007 by the state of California to be their recognized environmental expert for a series of Public Service Announcements and video campaigns that will air in 2007 throughout the state.

"The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper per year (amounting to half a tree). Considering the cost of copy paper is estimated to be about 20 times its purchase price when storage, shipping, energy use, and labor time are factored in, double siding is an easy solution; it would save $300 per employee per year -- never mind all those trees."

co-author of "The Green Book: The Everyday Guide for Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time."

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I guess he needs to stop writing and printing all this garbage then.

[Rob112586]

“Global warming” is the scare tactic used to keep the useful idiots on the left shelling out money and giving away rights in the name of a legit concern wrapped in hype. Good thing we’re immune from that kind of brainwashing.

[Matchett-PI]

“Force”, huh.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

He’s too sane for the job. Need someone more delusional than him.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Leonardo DiCaprio would of considered it, but it would interfer too much with his time spent chasing models and partying at the playboy mansion. If Hugh Hefner was willing to build Leonardo’s institute for global warming next to the Playboy Mansion pool grotto, then this could be a go.

[Matchett-PI]

“Who says FDR was the end all, be all. He forced the first steps toward socialism upon us, disguised as ‘help’” ~ pacpam

Funny. The sheeple never do seem to be able to add 2 + 2 and get 4.

“..For as Mao Tse Tung famously said, those who oppose progressive change ‘must go through a stage of compulsion before they can enter the stage of voluntary, conscious change.’” Excerpted from:

American Thinker
April 05, 2008
Doublethink and the Liberal Mind By Ed Kaitz
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/doublethink_and_the_liberal_mi.html

[VeniVidiVici]

What is it about the Left that always wants a king, a leader, a soverign, a Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini or Chavez? Someone ALWAYS has to be nominated; to lead them to the promised land.

These idiots don’t have an active brain cell in their entire head.

[EBH]

I don’t know. I’ve read or am reading several books. One was Unholy Alliance and the current one is Liberal Fascism. I just think there is those who lead and those who follow.

Conservative tend to lead their own lives, take responsiblity for their own lives and outcomes. Left liberals look to be led as they can’t seem to lead their own lives save for some of the very basic stuff. Even if they “appear” to be leading their own lives, don’t let it have a bump in the road or a rainy day. Then it becomes somebody elses fault as where a conservative takes that responsiblity...they look to be the victim of everything from the banks, to creditors, to their brokerage man, to the entire system.

They look to someone to create the perfect system and don’t understand that it doesn’t and can’t exist. They NEED it to exist.

What is truly amazing is that no matter how much you attempt to teach them to fish for themselves they refuse to take responsiblity for their own skills as fishermen. If they fail at fishing it will be your fault, you were a bad teacher, you didn’t stock the river (you polluted it).

I do think to some extent it is genetic. To use their own theory, it is part of the Darwin advancement of the human race. Independence and self-sufficiency vs. village mentality. Village may temporarily win the battle, but as history indicates they never win the war.