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The MSM loves to bring forth stories about "sustainability". It is a delightful concept that is handy for leftists to use in bashing all the normal features and functions of our modern, prosperous, capitalist, free enterprise society.

Don't like drilling for oil? Imply we shouldn't drill for any because it is not "sustainable".

Don't like mining for gold? Imply we shouldn't mine anything because it is not "sustainable".

Well "sustainability" comes to the the MSM in the Iron Law of economics: you must make a profit or you die. MSM deplores how "cut throat", and "greedy" capitalists are. They are only that because the Iron Laws of economics do not give any points for feelings, intent, or fears. Either something is "sustainable" or it is not. If it is not, then it declines or even goes out of business. If it is, then it grows and prospers. Either it is sustainable or not.

In some ways our prosperity, and we are indeed very prosperous, does not serve us well. It allows people to hide in the often tax-advantaged ivory towers where they can be insulated from economic reality. They come to believe that money grows on trees. That good intentions trump hard facts, and that people must be denied freedom of choice in news because they might be told truth that is just not politically correct.

Or they come to believe that covering a topic with 90 negative stories and 10 positive ones is "honest", and "not biased".

Farewell MSM. Self-selection is now at work. The people who think the same as you will flock to you and tell you what a great job you are doing. That is, the few in the MSM who are left. The rest of us? We'll flock to Free Republic and other places where the real news is examined in the light of reality.