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http://www.monbiot.com/ ^ | George Monbiot

[PushForBush2004]

What an idiot

[nwrep]

Long Live Adam Smith!! Long Live the pursuit of Happiness and Wealth!!

[Akira]

I couldn't help but laugh out loud at this:

"As Heinrich Haussmann has shown, a single pfennig invested at 5% compounded interest in the year 0 AD would, by 1990, have reaped a volume of gold 134 billion times the weight of the planet."

[Don Corleone]

Capitalism has failed? Walk into a Home Depot you idiot!

[Paul C. Jesup]

Of course I could make a really strong arguement that socialism and tyranny will lead the extinction of human race.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Adam Smith was a man way before his time. Actually I don't we have reached his time yet. :D

[kylaka]

It beats waiting in line for bread or being hip deep in umbrellas in the middle of a desert.

[coffmg]

What a maroon!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Just as Christians imagine that their God..."

Bravo. I love it when leftists touch all the bases.

[Age of Reason]

Thanks to overpopulation, we have lost much of our freedom and good places to live.

[zencat]

The fact is that things have consistently improved wherever capitalism has been tried. Life expectancy, standard of living, plentiful food, disease control, clean water, nifty gadgets, etc., etc.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1882577973/102-4026031-5020132?v=glance

[ChadGore]

Re: Speak this truth truckload of bs in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.

Me thinks the reader get's that a lot. That he or she is a crackpot, a looney, a prig, a nutball.

I would venture a guess that when total strangers inform you you are off your rocker, on a daily basis, over the course of years, that one would seek to apply some wizdom to their views ?

The ignorance of liberalism is blissfull, no doubt, but doesn't their intelectial honesty catch up with them sooner or later?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Peaked in 1968? I bet I know why he thinks that!!!

[Sabertooth]

If we take into account such factors as pollution and the depletion of natural capital, we see that the quality of life peaked in the United Kingdom in 1974 and in the United States in 1968, and has been falling ever since. We are going backwards.

This is true. In '68, I got Hot Wheels Superchargers and a Strange Change Machine for Christmas.

Top that.

[Dog Gone]

I think we're entitled to know which troll returned, since you put it in the headline. C'mon! Who was it?

[John Jorsett]

The reason should not be hard to grasp. Our economic system depends upon never-ending growth, yet we live in a world with finite resources. Our expectation of progress is, as a result, a delusion.

This is the stupidest thing I've read in a while. You can get growth by more efficient use of resources, however 'finite'. My flat-panel monitor uses a fraction of my old crt-based one, meaning I get far more display time for a unit of energy. That's replicated throughout our economy. Not to mention that we get increasingly good at locating and exploiting resources, deep-water oil drilling being one example. Consequently, the costs of those resources keeps going down as Julian Simon's bet with Paul Ehrlich made clear. Disregard anything this dope has to say.

[longtermmemmory]

Logic of the left

The glass is not half full.
The glass is not half empty.

The glass is too big.

[okie01]

"Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic."

And rightly so, you enviro-socialist moron.

There is no common ground upon which response to Monbiot's assertions is possible. It's like arguing with a demented juvenile.

[Akira]

Right on. I can't believe the author was unable to work in an anti-gun position in there somewhere. Clearly a novice at work here...

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"The reason should not be hard to grasp."

(Unless you are a stupid, greedy, exploitative American capitalist)

Sorry, pal, we cannot all be as noble as columnists.