Mr. Prager misses a lot of elephants because he apparently believes that liberals "care."
Conservatives know that they can't predict the weather 24 hours in advance, let alone 100 years in advance.
We've had two volcano eruptions in the past several weeks. Probably more to come. The earth knows what temperature is good for it. It has it's own cooling and heating systems (we call it weather). However, when the earth starts cooling down on its own, the leftists want to be able to take credit for it to keep the socialism going.
Liberals are just naturally more negative about everything than the average person.
They blow the negative side of any issue out of proportion.
They cannot see the good side of any policy or downplay it.
Global warming is just another issue to get paranoid about.
Liberals tend to fear dying themselves. Other people can die, that's not a problem. Saddam wasn't personally roaming the streets of NYC gunning down random passersby, so leave him alone. The 9/11 victims are dead anyway, so they don't count (except at election time.)
As for the reason liberals are envirowhackos, that is because they believe that an accident brought us here, therefore another accident could take us out. How all this environmental activism is supposed to prevent that eventuality is not the point. The point is that THEY must have total control in any case.
I've heard Prager on the radio before. If you looked up the phrase "bringing a butter knife to a gun fight," in the political dictionary, you would find his autographed photo.
Liberals don't fear "global warming"...they embrace it.
It enables them to acquire power!
I am so scared I think I should go in the kitchen and eat some organic food or something. You know I wonder about those polar ice caps , wasn't the Titanic hit by one of those before global warming.Why doesn't the left ever bring that up.
Quote-of-the-day bump.
The dead givaway to this is the fact that everything the Liberal/Marxist deplores just happens to be bad for the environment, like conspicuous consumption (excess solid waste), gasoline (eeeevil SUVs), meat consumption (farting cows), fastidious personal hygiene (hair sprays) and minimizing bodily odors (anti-perspirants and air conditioning)... OK, I made that last one up...
But everything that the Liberal/Marxist enjoys is either excused or ignored, like jetting about the World (often on private jets), hybrid vehicle battery disposal, inefficient "organic" agriculture, and the manifold environmental disasters in China and the former Soviet Union.
For instance, when was the last time you read in the Mainstream Media that uncontrolled coal mine fires in China emit more CO2 than every US vehicle East of the Mississippi River? Since the Chinese are favored by the Liberal/Marxist, they are permitted to pollute the World because they are too lazy to put out a few fires, but since you are an eeeevil capitalist, you are going to destroy the planet if you don't downsize from your Chevy Malibu to a Toyota Prius.
I didn't read the artlicle yet, so this is a placemarker. But I do agree with you that the Left adopted "environmentalism" as a lever to ram socialism down our throats. And environmentalism, handily for them, provides great opportunities to take potshots at businesses.
The only thing they forget is that the great socialist countries make America look like a piker when it comes to screwing up the environment.
The Right tends to fight human evil such as communism and Islamic totalitarianism. The Left avoids confronting such evils and concentrates its attention instead on socioeconomic inequality, environmental problems and capitalism.
That is probably because people on the right are more likely to believe that humans are at least partially responsible for their behavior, where people on the left are more inclined to buy into the theory that our fate is determined by our environment. It is the old "Free Will" vs. "Determinism" controversy.
Close, but no cigar. The left is comprised of three key groups: (1)perverts, (2)losers and (3) opportunists who prey on perverts and losers. Global warming is a hot button issue because it gives leftist opportunists a justification for increasing government's reach at the expense of freedom and enterprise.
They don't call 'em Watermelons for nothing...
(Green on the outside, pink on the inside...)
Answer:
1) We don't really believe Global Warming will occur; it's probably just a liberal myth created to socialize (read: impoverish) the world
2) If Global Warming occurs, humans are hugely adaptable, and we'll cope just fine
3) If Global Warming occurs, we doubt Al's doomsday scenarios
4) Preemptive action to prevent Global Warming requires mass starvation (how will you move food?); we're not excited about global genocide
5) Kyoto alone will have virtually no effect on Global Warming, if it is true
6) No other country has taken proactive action that resulted in adherence to Kyoto. Only Russia and the U.K. have achieved their goals via de-population (Russia) and Thatcherite breaking of the coal unions in favor of natural gas.
Didn't Breshnev say something to that effect when he resigned? The road to global communism is through environmentalism, or something?
WHY? Because they still believe
Al Gore invented the Internet,
and that Gore was right when he
said he and Tipper were the
models for "Love Story!"
Passion versus reason.