[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Argh!!

I think this guy is a closet Commie.

[KC_for_Freedom]

He does seem to subscribe to the “central planning myth” that is characterist of commies. The concept that a wise government could develop a long term plan and carry it out and somehow “save” our species from extinction is nuts. The government has never been “wise” and the government has never carried out a plan efficiently. If there is a catastrophy coming, the government will not be the corrective agent. It will be the “rugged individualist” who has planned for his smaller community of survivors.

BTW, the species will not be extinguished by global warming, peak oil, or economic collapse. Many people will suffer and die with the collapse of civilization, but humans are at least as adaptable as the insect shown above.
That is, some humans.

Of course as I say this, I realize at my age (65) I don’t have as much to fear about all this.

KC

[Marine_Uncle]

The guy thinks in geological terms. It sort of shields him from the real realities in life such as the growing Islamic threats world wide and the takeover of free nations that can choose through the voting process their destinies, by those that love absolute power and believe only a few should control the world.

[SunkenCiv]

Time to throw out 'myth' of recycling
by David Harrison
London Daily Telegraph
March 4, 2003

Throw away the green and blue bags and forget those trips to return bottles -- recycling household waste is a load of, well, rubbish, say leading environmentalists and waste campaigners. In a reversal of decades-old wisdom, they argue that burning cardboard, plastics and food leftovers is better for the environment and the economy than recycling. They dismiss household trash separation -- a practice encouraged by the green lobby -- as a waste of time and money... The Swedes' views are shared by many British local authorities, who have drawn up plans to build up to 50 incinerators in an attempt to tackle a growing waste mountain and cut the amount of garbage going to landfills... The use of incineration to burn household waste -- including packaging and food -- "is best for the environment, the economy and the management of natural resources," they wrote in an article for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Technological improvements have made incineration cleaner, the article said, and the process could be used to generate electricity, cutting dependency on oil... Recycled bottles cost glass companies twice as much as the raw materials, and recycling plastics was uneconomical, they said. "Plastics are made from oil and can quite simply be incinerated."

oldie (2001) from Popular Mechanics:

The Tree Solution
by Jim Wilson

As Greenpeace expanded to become the world's largest international environmental organization, Moore's star steadily rose and he eventually became vice president of research. Then he did something even more unexpected than joining the organization in the first place. He packed up and quit... In the months before his departure, Moore had begun talking heresy. "The environmental movement had gone astray and lost its perspective on forests," Moore says. "Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, we should be growing more trees and using more wood." Greenpeace branded him an eco-Judas. Now comes the biggest surprise of all. Recently published research suggests that Moore is right. Cutting down old trees could be the best way to thwart global warming.