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Top Green Admits: “We Are Lost!”
The American Interest ^ | 5/3/2011 | Walter Russell Meade

Posted on 05/04/2011 6:56:48 AM PDT by Lakeshark

George Monbiot of the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian has a must-read column in which he admits that because of a whole series of intellectual mistakes, the global green movement’s policy prescriptions are hopelessly flawed.

Read the whole piece for a thoughtful and brutally clear expose of the intellectual bankruptcy of the green movement from one of the smartest people in it. This is what I’ve been getting at for more than a year here: regardless of what is happening to Planet Earth, the green movement does not have coherent and workable solutions.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.the-american-interest.com ...


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; green; unsustainable
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Quietly, the "green revolution" continues to destroy us. Thankfully, some voices are showing how nonsensical the greens are. Good article here.
1 posted on 05/04/2011 6:56:53 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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regardless of what is happening to Planet Earth, the green movement does not have coherent and workable solutions.

The Green Movement is suicidal. It was never interested in coherent or workable solutions.

2 posted on 05/04/2011 7:03:25 AM PDT by Moonman62 (If gullible, uneducated and uncivilized people didn't exist, politicians would create them.)
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“I hope that by laying out the problem I can encourage us to address it more logically, to abandon magical thinking and to recognise the contradictions we confront. But even that could be a tall order.”

Tall order? What an optimist!


3 posted on 05/04/2011 7:03:39 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Lakeshark
We're halfway through the spring, and most of the country is still cool as heck.

Most of the country is now fully aware that the enviro-hysteria was nothing but a bunch of bunk, and that many of the people pushing it are liars.

4 posted on 05/04/2011 7:05:45 AM PDT by jpl
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“The Green Movement is suicidal. It was never interested in coherent or workable solutions.”

You touch the heart of the matter. All leftist movements are to some extent deformed with guilt and self loathing. “Greens” have carried it to its almost final extreme, embracing a hatred for our very species.


5 posted on 05/04/2011 7:06:02 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Lakeshark

Green movement is about socialism and state control, it has been wildly successful.


6 posted on 05/04/2011 7:08:27 AM PDT by central_va
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To: Lakeshark

There’s a misspelling. The headline says ‘lost’; the correct spelling is ‘fools’.


7 posted on 05/04/2011 7:09:41 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Lakeshark

George MoonBat.......how apropos................


8 posted on 05/04/2011 7:10:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Mitt Romney: The Harold Stassen of the 21st century........)
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To: Lakeshark
Not all that glitters is green.
9 posted on 05/04/2011 7:11:48 AM PDT by Mark was here (It's either Obama or America. There cannot be both.)
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To: Lakeshark

Clicking through twice, Monbiot suggests going to ~50% of current energy use. To put that in perspective, that would put the U.S. back to roughly mid-1960s levels of electrical energy consumption on a per-capita basis. Energy is a fundamental driver of economic activity. Are we really going to accept the poverty that such a move would create at the hands of our Green extremists? Screw that!


10 posted on 05/04/2011 7:19:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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just wait till we get a solid majority in this country and GE executives start going to jail...


11 posted on 05/04/2011 7:28:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“just wait till we get a solid majority in this country and GE executives start going to jail...”

A nice dream, but it’s just about as likely as the Buckeye football team surviving this coming season.


12 posted on 05/04/2011 7:30:46 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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>>> Top Green Admits: “We Are Lost!”
George Monbiot .... admits that because of a whole series of intellectual mistakes, the global green movement’s policy prescriptions are hopelessly flawed. <<<

No worries, George Moonbat-idiot, your global green movement only suffered a temporary setback.

The current young generation and the next generation have all been thoroughly indoctrinated.


13 posted on 05/04/2011 7:35:37 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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We have the normal bunch of greenies in our area. Every once in a while I love asking them why they have big houses, central heat, and two or more cars (usually one of them is an SUV).

They do all the right things in little, inconsequential ways, put out green signs and flags, they vote for democrats, but they never change their lifestyle in ways that show they really believe what they are saying.

It's all show to make themselves feel better.

14 posted on 05/04/2011 7:37:51 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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The original article is a fairly objective about the trade-offs and fact that there is no free lunch:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/02/environmental-fixes-all-greens-lost

Most people fail to understand the basic science involved, and keep hoping for some magic to happen that will remove the fundamental trade-offs and make everything sunshine and roses. Must like the article I posted yesterday about the NJ suburb that is adding solar panels to it’s utility poles, the fist thing you hear is bitching about them being “eyesores”.

We have yet to figure out how to cost-effectively come anywhere near the energy density of a gallon of gasoline.


15 posted on 05/04/2011 7:50:03 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Lakeshark

In a rational world where politicians were objective and didn’t throw their support behind retarded movements, this would be good news. But alas, as long as a politician supports it, he has the power to keep it going regardless of whether it works or not.


16 posted on 05/04/2011 7:53:07 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: Lakeshark

In a rational world where politicians were objective and didn’t throw their support behind retarded movements, this would be good news. But alas, as long as a politician supports it, he has the power to keep it going regardless of whether it works or not.


17 posted on 05/04/2011 7:53:16 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: FreedomPoster

A few weeks ago an article was posted about the English energy minister (or some other title) commenting about the future. He said the British were just going to have to get used to doing without electricity when demand was high, due to increased dependence on “green” energy. They will divert power to those that need it most. Anyone have their “smart” meters yet? They just put mine in. They will be able to shut off individual homes or businesses if they want.


18 posted on 05/04/2011 8:07:47 AM PDT by TStro
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To: steelyourfaith

Ping.


19 posted on 05/04/2011 8:09:17 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Lakeshark

BFl


20 posted on 05/04/2011 8:17:31 AM PDT by zeugma (The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)
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