Posted on 02/28/2007 4:00:33 PM PST by goldstategop
Even right-wingers who know that "global warming" is a crock do not seem to grasp what the tree-huggers are demanding. Liberals want mass starvation and human devastation.
Forget the lunacy of people claiming to tell us the precise temperature of planet Earth in 1918 based on tree rings. Or the fact that in the '70s liberals were issuing similarly dire warnings about "global cooling."
Simply consider what noted climatologists Al Gore and Melissa Etheridge are demanding that we do to combat their nutty conjectures about "global warming." They want us to starve the productive sector of fossil fuel and allow the world's factories to grind to a halt. This means an end to material growth and a cataclysmic reduction in wealth.
There are more reputable scientists defending astrology than defending "global warming," but liberals simply announce that the debate has been resolved in their favor and demand that we shut down all production.
They think they can live in a world of only Malibu and East Hampton – with no Trentons or Detroits. It does not occur to them that someone has to manufacture the tiles and steel and glass and solar panels that go into those "eco-friendly" mansions, and someone has to truck it all to their beachfront properties, and someone else has to transport all the workers there to build it. (And then someone has to drive the fleets of trucks delivering the pachysandra and bottled water every day.)
Liberals are already comfortably ensconced in their beachfront estates, which they expect to be unaffected by their negative growth prescriptions for the rest of us.
There was more energy consumed in the manufacture, construction and maintenance of Leonardo DiCaprio's Malibu home than is needed to light the entire city of Albuquerque, where there are surely several men who can actually act. But he has solar panels to warm his house six degrees on chilly Malibu nights.
Liberals haven't the foggiest idea how the industrial world works. They act as if America could reduce its vast energy consumption by using fluorescent bulbs and driving hybrid cars rather than SUVs. They have no idea how light miraculously appears when they flick a switch or what allows them to go to the bathroom indoors in winter – luxuries Americans are not likely to abandon because Leo DiCaprio had solar panels trucked into his Malibu estate.
Our lives depend on fossil fuel. Steel plants, chemical plants, rubber plants, pharmaceutical plants, glass plants, paper plants – those run on energy. There are no Mother Earth nursery designs in stylish organic cotton without gas-belching factories, ships and trucks, and temperature-controlled, well-lighted stores. Windmills can't even produce enough energy to manufacture a windmill.
Because of the industrialization of agriculture – using massive amounts of fossil fuel – only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?
"Global warming" is the left's pagan rage against mankind. If we can't produce industrial waste, then we can't produce. Some of us – not the ones with mansions in Malibu and Nashville is my guess – are going to have to die. To say we need to reduce our energy consumption is like saying we need to reduce our oxygen consumption.
Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and Ukrainians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate poor blacks, DDT opponent Rachel Carson wanted to eliminate Africans (introduction to her book "Silent Spring" written by ... Al Gore!), and population-control guru Paul Ehrlich wants to eliminate all humans.
But global warming is the most insane, psychotic idea liberals have ever concocted to kill off "useless eaters." If we have to live in a pure "natural" environment like the Indians, then our entire transcontinental nation can only support about 1 million human beings. Sorry, fellas – 299 million of you are going to have to go.
Proving that the "global warming" campaign is nothing but hatred of humanity, these are the exact same people who destroyed the nuclear power industry in this country 30 years ago.
If we accept for purposes of argument their claim that the only way the human race can survive is with clean energy that doesn't emit carbon dioxide, environmentalists waited until they had safely destroyed the nuclear power industry to tell us that. This proves they never intended for us to survive.
"Global warming" is the liberals' stalking horse for their ultimate fantasy: The whole U.S. will look like Amagansett, with no one living in it except their even-tempered maids (for "diversity"), themselves and their coterie (all, presumably, living in solar-heated mansions, except the maids who will do without electricity altogether). The entire fuel-guzzling, tacky, beer-drinking, NASCAR-watching middle class with their over-large families will simply have to die.
It seems not to have occurred to the jet set that when California is as poor as Mexico, they might have trouble finding a maid. Without trucking, packaging, manufacturing, shipping and refrigeration in their Bel-Air fantasy world, they'll be chasing the rear end of an animal every time their stomachs growl and killing small animals for pelts to keep their genitals warm.
Thanks for the quotes. Each was illuminating in its own way.
Perhaps the quote by Jacques Cousteau helps explain his long lasting presence on PBS. We have recently seen liberal politicization of the OSCAR and Grammy awards, but I think the process has gone on for a long time.
Oh, you're gonna love these two entries today at the Belmont Club.
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/02/robert-mugabes-zimbabwe.html
and
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/02/ever-innocent-murderers.html
All puzzle pieces fitting far too well in place. Where's that flaming death's head gif from Ace's place? It would fit so well about now.
Natural or caused by mankind?
I'll place my bet on millions of years of climate history than some dubious computer models that it's natural.
But just incase it's manmade, I think every celiberal should have their mansions torn down and hundreds of trees grown in in their place. Then they can move into apartments and take public transportation to work.
Who's joking ? Legally separating GW fools from their money could be a substantial retirement income stream.
The fact that the planet has warmed and cooled in the past does not prove that monkeys won't fly out of my butt.
Al has that covered ... he buys his carbon credits from his own company and is doing his best to recruit others to purchase from same.
While we are all talking about Ann Coulter and food, could someone please buy her a couple of hamburgers?
The fact that the planet has warmed and cooled in the past does not prove that humans are not responsible for warming this particular time.
I can see your point, but considering the communist background of the people behind the "global warming" movement, one should not overlook the alterior motives of those who preach "global warming" as a manmade phenomenon.
Look! They even chose Vladimir Ilych Lenin's birthday for their "Earth Day" celebration. The enviromentalists abviously have a hidden agenda behind their movement.
"You're a daydreamer, I see."
Most of the time I daydream about being in a hot tub with Ann Coulter, Monica Crowley and Laura Ingraham, drinking margaritas, sucking on helium and reading from Al Franken's, "liars who lie to lying lions" or whatever that POS is entitled.
Beats throwing crap at the TV everytime Hildabeasts ugly mug appears.
bump!
I agree that there may be hidden agendas going on here.
In an earlier post, I said that the Warmers had the burden of proof to show that warming is going on. Because of the possibility of great damage, I'm starting to think that the Status Quos may want to demonstrate warming is not going on.
If warming is occurring, I don't think it's relevant whether it's caused by humans (other than to confirm it's happening and/or to help design a solution).
This one is going to leave a scar!!!
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