Posted on 07/20/2008 6:36:48 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
'100 months to save the planet'
A "Green New Deal" is needed to solve current problems of climate change, energy and finance, a report argues.
According to the Green New Deal Group, humanity only has 100 months to prevent dangerous global warming.
Its proposals include major investment in renewable energy and the creation of thousands of new "green collar" jobs.
The name is taken from President Franklin D Roosevelt's "New Deal", launched 75 years ago to bring the US out of the Great Depression.
The new grouping says rising greenhouse gas emissions, combined with escalating food and energy costs, mean the globe is facing one of its biggest crises since the 1930s.
Its members include former Friends of the Earth UK director Tony Juniper, Green MEP Caroline Lucas and Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation (nef).
In an article for the BBC News website's Green Room series, Mr Simms warns that the combination of the current credit crunch, rising energy prices and accelerating emissions are "conspiring to create the perfect storm".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Does anyone remember when the Goracle was pushing waterless toilets?
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/22/150901.shtml
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Former Vice President Al Gore joined the board of a waterless urinal company late last year (2003) to further the dry toilet cause and to help avert what many environmentalists believe is a looming international water crisis.
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Primitive Worship
But Robert Bidinotto, publisher of ecoNOT.com and a critic of environmentalists, dismisses such notions as primitive-worship.
Incredibly, some environmentalists actually prefer that the foul messes we normally capture in diapers and landfills spill instead onto our linoleum, carpets and even our children, Bidinotto told CNSNews.com.
Paging Dr. Freud
Noting many greens opposition to flush toilets and now baby diapers, Bidinotto said environmentalists have a strange affinity for bodily wastes, and he believes they have become obsessed with toilet issues.
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Hes just full of great ideas to save the universe!
One hundred months is also the duration of The Great Depression.
I think you nailed it. There is a panicked rush to do anything they recommended so they can they can claim a victory. If we do nothing and the planet cools on it’s own, they will be proven frauds, fools and con men.
It's going to fail because the promoters failed to close off free speech first.
(Though they tried).
This isn’t comparable to the Tulip bubble.
This is comparable to the apocalyptic year 1000 cults in Europe and England.
No matter what the reality the AGW zealots turn up the whine.
BBC has become such an intellectual toilet.
100 months - such a nice, even number. Wonder who got to throw the dart at the dartboard first?
I'm working on some wine. It seems to be working well for me.
In 100 months when nothing has changed, can we round up all these idiots and kick the living he77 out of them? Just asking.
In five years the global warming cultists will be living in armed compounds. Because of their unshakable belief that global temperatures are rising drastically, state authorities will be taking their children away because their kids aren’t being provided warm clothes in the dead of winter. (sarcasm)
Would somebody PLEASE tell me how to embed a photo in a post, so I can post that photo, Aw Jeez, not this sh*t again!”?
...Or, you can just do ot for me. ;-)
‘100 months to save the planet’ has the same intellectual gravity as ‘100 bottles of beer on a wall’.
It passes the time, and there is free grant money, so that’s a bonus!
Isn’t that the truth (ie medication)?
These freaking idiots want us to put trillions of dollars of investment in fossil fuel power systems (electricity, transportation, manufacturing, residential heating and cooling, et al) in the dumper and replace it with some vague and undefined “non-carbon” energy source. What do these loons exactly think this will do to energy prices and food prices?
This is entirely a fabricated “crises” of their own making.
The truth is that the planet is actually COOLING. Within a couple of years, it will be obvious to everyone and the watermelons’ chance to force a change in our lifestyle and revert us back to the 14th century will have passed. Thus their rhetoric gets more and more outrageous every day.
Did Gore put one of those dirt toilets in his mansion?
I’m eating the biggest steaks and drinking lots of beer while waiting for the sky to fall.
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