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The New Yorker’s OUTRAGEOUS Climate Nemesis: Refrigerators
NewsBusters ^ | 1/20/2022 | Jeffrey Clark

Posted on 01/20/2022 11:27:31 AM PST by JV3MRC

New Yorker Staff Writer David Owen took a nosedive into eco-extremism. He argued that the refrigerator has become — wait for it — “an agent of climate catastrophe.”

Owen pontificated in a blog headlined, “How the Refrigerator Became an Agent of Climate Catastrophe,” that “[t]he evolution of cooling technology helps to explain why supposed solutions to global warming have only made the situation worse.” Specifically, he identified refrigerators, these unassuming little machines, as the vile culprits “of our unfolding climate catastrophe.” Really? Owen wrote as if refrigerators are cartoon villains who chomp on cigars while they devise the destruction of the climate. But his article is, in typical liberal fashion, a truth “catastrophe.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; climatechange; ecoextremism; globalwarming; newyorker
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1 posted on 01/20/2022 11:27:31 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

They will target indoor plumbing next.


2 posted on 01/20/2022 11:29:39 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The experts are liars. The conspiracy theorists are the people who have figured out the Truth.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And personal hygiene.


3 posted on 01/20/2022 11:31:53 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: JV3MRC
Refrigerators have always been dangerous...


4 posted on 01/20/2022 11:32:04 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: JV3MRC

The same arguments would be used on air conditioning, which makes places like Arizona and much of Africa and the Mid-East habitable.

I don’t think you would even get local lefties on board for banning that.


5 posted on 01/20/2022 11:33:45 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: JV3MRC

It’s The Great Reset: In the immediate wake of the Covid-19 mania, suddenly we are bombarded with stories about all the things we don’t need to be happy: single-family homes; automobiles; meat; the ability to travel; children; and now refrigerators. The globalists seem intent on imposing a kind of monasticism without God. For US, that is.


6 posted on 01/20/2022 11:34:09 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: JV3MRC

Would like proof that this maroon one, does not own a refrigerator and two, does not go to places that use refrigeration. Otherwise, this maroon is just a two faced hypocrite who thinks he is, but is not, knowledgeable.


7 posted on 01/20/2022 11:35:10 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Dr. Sivana

I had a left winger tell me twelve years ago that we would be made to live in caves, but the he and libs would give us candles if we were good. Here in Arizona...


8 posted on 01/20/2022 11:36:17 AM PST by Luke21
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To: JV3MRC

Does insanity have any limits?

And has this moron and hypocrite gotten rid of his refrigerator and AC?


9 posted on 01/20/2022 11:36:38 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Magnum44

Everyone knows that refrigerators make you fat.


10 posted on 01/20/2022 11:37:12 AM PST by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: JV3MRC

Fine. He can give up his and let us know his replacement food preservation techniques.


11 posted on 01/20/2022 11:39:10 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: JV3MRC
Back in the 1980s, the Big Green decided to go after the element chlorine. They figured out that if they could halt the production of chlorine and all the important chemical feedstocks that are made with chlorine, they could essentially bring civilization to a stop.

They really put a lot of effort into this for a year or two, but eventually dropped it and went on to other things, like "deforestation of the rain forests" and "global warming."

12 posted on 01/20/2022 11:40:48 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Luke21
I had a left winger tell me twelve years ago that we would be made to live in caves, but the he and libs would give us candles if we were good. Here in Arizona...

And how did he figure you'd go without a fight? Or that he wouldn't be in caves in the dark with you?

13 posted on 01/20/2022 11:40:48 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: JV3MRC

I assume that Mr. Owen lives a refrigerator-free, and air conditioning-free lifestyle, both in his home, at his work, and in his personal vehicle.

If not then he is a hypocrite.


14 posted on 01/20/2022 11:41:42 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: JV3MRC

what about all of the heat that is generated when you apply the brakes on your car?


15 posted on 01/20/2022 11:48:38 AM PST by dearolddad
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To: JV3MRC

Kiss most life-saving drugs goodbye, like vaccines.


16 posted on 01/20/2022 11:49:39 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: JV3MRC

They want to eliminate the industrialized civilization that we have. Cars, heating, air conditioning, manufacturing, appliances, refrigeration, flush toilets (but not for themselves) and send us back to the middle ages.


17 posted on 01/20/2022 11:54:46 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: JV3MRC

I guarantee, David Owen owns a 32 cu ft side-by-side fridge.


18 posted on 01/20/2022 11:55:16 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: JV3MRC
Well, refrigerators ARE dangerous. We have known that for decades:

1960's PSA

G.I. Joe against a refrigerator
William Shatner against the refrigerator

The New England Patriots against a refrigerator
19 posted on 01/20/2022 11:55:43 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: JV3MRC

I’ve heard people make mountains out of the heat blown out by air conditioners, as if it came from another planet, while it came from inside the building right there, apparently not doing any harm on that side of the walls.


20 posted on 01/20/2022 11:55:54 AM PST by gloryblaze
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