I get the feeling that Europeans are forgetting history.
Posted on 04/09/2014 4:22:32 PM PDT by ClaytonP
If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car.
But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you're the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers – the US and Russia – still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth.
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Yep. They’re setting the stage for mass executions of “climate change deniers” like us.
They’ve done this before.
When they’re in truly desperate condition, they start trying to define the case against them as some kind of violent act.
Or, you could, say, write a book that claims harmless DDT is causing mass extinctions, and then when DDT is banned, lament the millions of deaths needlessly caused in Africa by malaria-bearing mosquitos.
I think biased, Leftist articles like this should have some kind of disclaimer next to the heading so people know the questionable source of the headline statement.
Their straw man must be burned down metaphorically speaking.
Exactly
Call enviro-nazis for what they are: tyrants who do violence to our freedoms and soon to our lives.
I get the feeling that Europeans are forgetting history.
Yeah, well, you have my word of honor that if they come for me it will be a lot for than a twofer.
Rebecca is off her meds.
Call the mob mentality what it is, militant Marxism.
That thunder and lightning is just the gods in the heavens having a little fight. Right?
Better get someone up there to stop it. All that fighting is just toooooooo much to take.
Early life and educationFrom Wikipedia.Solnit grew up in Novato, California. She skipped high school altogether, enrolling in an alternative junior high in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed the GED. Thereafter she enrolled in junior college. When she was 17 she went to study in Paris, France. She ultimately returned to California and finished her college education at San Francisco State University when she was 20 years old. She then received a master's degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and has been an independent writer since 1988. She credits her education in journalism and art criticism with strengthening her critical thinking skills and training her to quickly develop expertise in the great variety of subjects her books have covered.
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Her writing has appeared in numerous publications in print and online, including the website Tomdispatch.com. Solnit is the author of thirteen books as well as essays in numerous museum catalogs and anthologies. Her 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster began as an essay called "The Uses of Disaster: Notes on Bad Weather and Good Government" published by Harper’s magazine the day that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. It was partially inspired by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which Solnit described as "a remarkable occasion...a moment when everyday life ground to a halt and people looked around and hunkered down". In a conversation with filmmaker Astra Taylor for BOMB magazine, Solnit summarized the radical theme of A Paradise Built in Hell: "What happens in disasters demonstrates everything an anarchist ever wanted to believe about the triumph of civil society and the failure of institutional authority."
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Solnit has received many awards for her writing: two NEA fellowships for Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan literary fellowship, and a 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing on the effects of technology on the arts and humanities. In 2010 Utne Reader magazine named Solnit as one of the "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World". Her The Faraway Nearby (2013) was nominated for a National Book Award, and shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award. Solnit credits Eduardo Galeano, Pablo Neruda, Ariel Dorfman, Elena Poniatowska, Gabriel García Márquez, and Virginia Woolf as writers who have influenced her work.
What ought we call banning DDT then?
BARF ALERT!
Source: The Guardian. What more do you want?
There has been no warming for 17 years. The models are all wrong.
Who will be the Horst Wessel of climate change?
Someone struck by lightning, perhaps? Maybe one of the idiots who drives a vehicle into floodwaters?
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