Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/16/2009 9:04:40 AM PDT by bs9021
Road to Green Hell
by: Daniel Allen, April 16, 2009
While the risks of continuing to live our current lifestyle have been sung from the rooftops and beaten into the minds of citizens for years now, few have grasped the risks associated with the growing fervor of the green movement.
Steve Milloy, the author of a new book called Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop them, offers a comprehensive rebuttal to the green movement, seeking to expose the true motives of many environmental activists. As much as possible in the book, he quotes organizations and activists to show just how far overboard the movement has gone.
Scientific rebuttal is a hard sell, says Milloy. “It’s almost always easier to scare than to reassure voters,” he explained, pointing out the fact that the green movement has gained popularity through faulty science. “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s award-winning documentary is a chief example, in which “nearly 100 percent of the film’s scientific material was questionable.” The shoddy research even caused a British judge to rule that teachers were required to give a disclaimer to students before showing the film because of the questionable “truth.”
Another example of the often irrational green fervor that has overtaken the country is a new “green laptop” from Asus. The laptop is meant to be environment-friendly because it sports a bamboo cover, rather than the usual plastic one. As Milloy explained, though, harvesting and growing bamboo emits greenhouse gases, and then transporting it to the United States emits even more. When the cover is eventually thrown away it biodegrades causing even more gas emissions. Not only is the new bamboo cover less than eco-friendly, it costs over $700 more than the original....
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Gang Green. Collectivists rum amok.
rum? I must’ve had those other anti-freedom collectivists on my mind (after all I’m a beer drinker). ARRRRRGH!
Eco-morons.
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