Posted on 07/22/2007 12:27:07 AM PDT by goldstategop
f a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is it because Al Gore and a bunch of elderly rockers organized an all-star stadium gala on its behalf? The colossal flopperoo of Live Earth is a heartening reminder that there are some things too ridiculous even for global pop culture, and one of them is the Rev. Almer Gortry speaking truth to power ballads.
Why did so few people feel the urge to rock against climate change? Touchingly enough, the organizers put it down to the weather. Dismal TV ratings? "The BBC blamed the poor figures on Saturday's good weather." Sluggish ticket sales for the live events? "Organisers of Live Earth Johannesburg are convinced climate change is to blame for the paltry turn-out at the Coca Cola Dome today. Promoter John Langford claims it snowed last week for the first time in a quarter of a century, and the freezing conditions are keeping people away." Too hot to stay in and watch it on TV, too freezing to go out and watch it in person: clearly, climate change is rampaging out of control.
Still, for the brave few who stuck with all 174 hours of Live Al, there was something oddly touching about seeing rock gazillionaires who'd flown in by private jet tell Joe Schmoe all the stuff he doesn't need. Your own car? A washer and dryer? Ha! Why can't you take the bus and beat your underwear on the rocks down by the river with the native women all morning long?
As long as we're making environmentally-friendly lifestyle suggestions, here's one thing we don't "need": Stadium rock. Amplifiers. Electrified instruments.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Well, I guess Professor Guillebaud's grandchildren (assuming he has any) will eventually discover whether he was right about that. Few westerners are yet as boldly explicit in their anti-humanism, but there is a more general insouciance among these ancient European peoples as they commence, in effect, to vanish from the earth in an incremental auto-genocide: the Scots and Germans would rather weep for obscure insects on distant continents than for themselves. They agitate for a Live Earth but are indifferent to their own demise.
The West is committing demographic suicide. But don't expect the Left and the good Rev. Gortry to draw attention to the emergency situation: a world with fewer Westerners in it. I doubt it does much for the polar bears on the ice floes.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Al thinks he can reduce the population by boring people to death.
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
Other References:
"In Europe as a whole, the fertility rate is a little over 1.3, which is what demographers call "lowest-low" fertility, from which no society in human history has ever recovered. The Spanish, the Italians, the Germans, the Greeks, the Bulgars and Ukrainians will be extinct long before the polar bears or the Antarctic krill or the Latin-American three-toed tree sloth or any of the other species these professors wants to protect."
And this while the Left is busy promoting contraception and abortion on demand while the Western World teeters on the brink of extinction. There are no rock concerts being organized to save humanity.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Democrats still buy and burn gasoline at record levels, causing Global Warming,
Everytime I see a Carry/Edwierds bumper sticker, I want to shut their car down for them,
Going to be a good laugh when Democrats have to put Hillary stickers on their gas guzzlers.
“ecochondriacs” — another brilliant Steynism which I plan to use as soon as possible.
—great Steyn—
Liberals are funny. yes there is global warming and people are partly responsible for it. Yes it will change our way of life if the polar ice caps melt and flood the coasts. But they don’t offer any serious solutions. instead, all they do is point to the studies, ridicule those who don’t “believe”, sing and dance with the rockers and wear a ribbon.
Or push Kyoto which is just as effective.
Rather than focusing on reducing the future population of the UK (or the Earth for that matter), why not focus on the present population. If these activists feel so strongly about population pressures, why don’t they do all of us a favor and immediately commit suicide? Let them leave a recorded statement emphasizing their key messages, much as the suicidal jihadi “martyrs” do. Everyone wins that way.
If these activists feel so strongly about population pressures, why don’t they do all of us a favor and immediately commit suicide?
If only they would...the Left’s plan is suicide for everyone but them!
Come on all. Global warming was Al Gores trial balloon to see if he would have the support and fundraising base to run for President in 2008.
He doesn’t and all global warming now is is a new term that will go into Websters.
Did anyone notice on the one issue that could have united the world, Hillary wasn’t asked her opinion on it?
Steyn bump
ever read Time Machine by H G Wells? The Eloipeans will be eaten by the Muslocks
Steyn hits it out of the park yet again.
I about got up and left Mass this morning when the peace and justice lady asked us to pray for those fighting overseas away from their “homeland.” Given that the standard used to be “our sons and daughters fighting overseas” I know that the peace and justice weirdos twisted it so that now I have to pray for Alquada too. And then there’s the prayer that our world leaders use diplomacy yadadyada.... if they start in on global warming, I’m going to have find another church. But since Kansas is having the coolest summer in a decade, I’m hoping we don’t have to hear it.
Let me see, the world is coming to an end because humanity is burning resources, polluting the air, increasing the temperature of the planet, buying SUV’s, and ignoring the wisdom of the globalist intellectuals who only have our best interests in mind. Of course the only solution according to these brainiacs is to get rid of humanity. Do you ever get the feeling that completely unhinged clueless people have way to much power, time, and money on their hands? I can just imagine going to one of their exclusive parties where they decide to do away with God and religion, then useless human beings (i.e. everyone but them), and then finish it off by all agreeing to fly out to there next million dollar bash to celebrate what a great bunch of guys they are (think the Oscars).
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